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FruityMaps lets you try out Apple’s upcoming MapKit web API now

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/mapkit.jpg?w=1600&h=900)</div><p>Not soon after the news of Apple potentially <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/04/19/embedded-apple-map-on-wwdc-site-suggests-official-public-mapkit-web-api-coming-soon/" target="_blank">opening MapKit as a web API[/url], creative developer <a href="https://twitter.com/TimBroddin" target="_blank">Tim Broddin[/url] has gone ahead and developed a proof of concept showing what that experience might look like in the future. <a href="http://fruitymaps.com/" target="_blank">Fruity Maps[/url] mimics a very basic Apple Maps view similar to what you’ve likely encountered with embedded web versions of Google Maps. While it’s missing most features that would make it fully usable (such as pins and searching), it gives us a very nice idea of the extent that Apple Maps might be utilized by developers on a desktop experience.</p>
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