Developers

We want to work with the development community.

We are a small friendly team and so should be able to respond quickly to feedback or feature requests*.

Like playing with geodata? Think our interface is terrible and you know how to do a better job? Or perhaps you run a website whose users have an interest in seeing relevant property information. Whatever your motivation please feel free to use our API to access the Nestoria database.

Full details of the Nestoria API

Where possible we aim to contribute to the Open Source community, and you'll often find us as attendees at London opensource events. We're proud to have sponsored:

Perl Conferences:

YAPC::EUs	2011, 2010, 2008
London Perl Workshops	2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
German Perl Workshops	2010, 2009
Other events	2009 Birmingham QA Hackathon

We've released several perl modules including Algorithm::DependencySolver, Geo:Coder::Many, Net::YAP, Number::Format::SouthAsian, and URI::ParseSearchString. Learn more about our use of Perl in this PerlBuzz review of Nestoria.

Geo Events:

State of the Map	2011 (SOTMEU) 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
WhereCamp EU	2011, 2010
FOSSGIS	2010
	We sponsor and help organize #geomob - a quarterly meetup for geo and mobile developers - in London. We look forward to seeing you there.

Other Conferences:

London tech events

ScaleCamp UK: 2009, 2010, BarCamp London 7

Projects we support

OpenStreetMap
We've sponsored several OpenStreetMap events including the State of the Map conference every year it's been held! Besides sponsoring SOTMs, we also run a parallel version of our site that shows the quality of OpenStreetMap maps. Read about our part in the first commercial use of OpenStreetMap data.

Mapstraction
We sponsor and contribute to Mapstraction. The Mapstraction team has developed a common API for online mapping solutions and free data sources like OpenStreetMap. If you have an interest in online mapping we recommend you give Mapstraction a look.

We support open standards. As examples, all of our RSS feeds are marked up in geoRSS, and we support the OpenSearch format for sharing search results. We also supply data in KML and GPX format. Our listings are compatible with the emerging hListing format.

We'd love to hear your thoughts about Nestoria, about how we can improve, and about what sort of features the community would like to see from our API. We look forward to hearing from you.

We regularly have interviews with thought-leaders from the tech world on our blogs.

We are always looking for sharp technically minded people to join us.

We post some of our experiments and more conceptual uses of our tools over at Lokku Labs. Enjoy. And please send feedback.

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