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Mapping service has been restored. We do apologize for the downtime experienced.

We apologize for the downtime experienced, our Engineers are resolving the problem and functionality should be restored soon.

mapIT is extremely excited to announce that Dr. Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary of the Kenyan Ministry of Information Technology and Services (ITS), will be opening the Developer Day in Nairobi on the 25th March.

To follow on from the last successful mapIT Developers Day held in Johannesburg, South Africa in October 2012, mapIT will be hosting their first Developer’s Day in Nairobi, Kenya on the 25th March 2013. The event will be hosted in association with mapIT’s Kenyan partner, Integrat – a leading mobile aggregation services provider.

The best two applications developed will each win a TomTom personal navigation device with map data for East Africa sponsored by TomTom Africa. Other prizes will also be announced on the day.

Places are limited so to register, please email your full details to wanja@ke.integrat.co.za

For more information visit: http://www.mapit.co.za/kenyadevday

JavaScript v3.0.7.1 released

Release Notes:

• Added support for mapIT South Africa Imagery service.
• Please contact mapIT to acquire the necessary license.

Click here to download the API and to view the documentation with live examples.

JavaScript v3.0.7 released

Release Notes:

• Enhancements
• More precise mouse event collision detection with shapes.
• Shapes now offer a "toggle" method.
• No more need to explicitly call for a map render after modifying the visibility of a shape.
• Enabled HTTPS support.
• Overlapping shapes event support.

• Fixes
• Shape .contains() fixes.
• Event position fixes in case of positioned maps.
• Fix hardcoded indexes for switching view types.

Click here to download the API and to view the documentation with live examples.

mapIT recently updated infrastructure to offer better throughput and also to cater for mapping services on port 80. If you are already a current API user please change the following in your Config.js

deCarta.Core.Configuration.url = "http://ws.mapit.co.za/openls/JSON";
deCarta.Core.Configuration.imagePort = 80;

Your current configuration should still work fine but we strongly advise that you change over to this service configuration at earliest convenience.

JavaScript v3.0.3 released

Release Notes:

• Changes
• All visual elements in the API are now styled using CSS
• New styles for InfoWindows and pin clusters
• Map methods to show / hide an infoWindow at any position
• Pan distance can be specified in pan control

• Bug Fixes
• Bug with zoom controller in IE
• When zoomed all the way in, sometimes polylines would disappear

Click here to download the API and to view the documentation with live examples.

We are pleased to announce the release of the all new mapIT JavaScript API V3. The new mapIT JavaScript API is a lightweight, full-featured, highly configurable, high performance HTML5-compliant framework for building state of the art LBS applications for desktop and smart phone browsers. The API is available to download here

mapIT JavaScript API V3 features:

• Core LBS Features
• Fast loading draggable maps
• Tile Caching
• Multiple map styles (NEW)
• Latest Satellite Imagery from Digital Globe
• Multiple map projections (NEW)
• "Out of the box" support for ellipsoidal (EPSG:3395) and spherical (EPSG:3857) mercator projections
• Boundary and Collision detection
• Custom Layer support for mapIT Imagery (NEW)
• Custom Layers (NEW)
• Easily integrate any external tile layer (e.g. traffic, terrain, heat maps, any 3rd party data etc.)
• Map Animations
• Smaller footprint / faster loading
• Pins on map
• Customizable Pin framework (NEW)
• CSS3 Pins (NEW)
• Pins Labeling (NEW)
• Pin Clustering [group overlapping pins and label with meta data] (NEW)
• Draggable Pins (NEW)
• Pinch Zoom (two finger zooming), where supported
• Geocoding
• Freeform
• Structured
• Reverse
• HTML5 Geolocation API integration
• Continuous Map zoom
• Routing
• Fastest (default)
• Shortest
• Automotive & Pedestrian
• ETA
• Avoid Freeways/toll roads etc.
• Add Waypoints to route
• Set up exclusion zones (e.g. route around downtown araea) (NEW)
• Corridor Search
• Search along your route by drive time/drive distance
• Points of Interest (POIs)
• Stocked Bar" of POIs available out of the box
• Advanced POI search (by category/name/distance)
• Continuous search (e.g. continue to search as user pans around the map)
• Event Management
• Unified event management system shared by all map objects (NEW)
• Abstraction between touch and mouse based device (NEW)
• XML/JSON request / response interceptor API (NEW)


• UI Features
• Easily resize your UI controls to better fit with the device (smartphone, tablets etc.) of your choice (NEW)
• UI Controls packaged separately to allow developers to use only the controls they need (NEW)
• Beautiful out-of-the-box UI assets. (NEW)
• Ability to easily modify the look and feel of UI controls via standard CSS styling (NEW)
• Client side shape rendering.  SVG, Canvas, VML shapes supported (NEW)
• Fluid Layout system (NEW)
• CSS3 Media Query Support (NEW)


• Performance (NEW)
• Hardware acceleration by default (where available) for improved performance (Hardware acceleration can also be turned off, if necessary)


• Browser support
• All major mobile browsers supported (iOS, Android, Samsung etc.)
• All major tablet browsers supported (iOs, Android, Kindle Fire)
• All major desktop browsers supported (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer etc.)


• Source Code included in API package


• Detailed documentation with live code examples

The new mapIT JavaScript API V3 allows developers to build web based applications that provide user experience that is on par with native (Android, iOS etc.) applications. Use the mapIT JavaScript API to quickly build LBS apps that highlight your unique content.

Click here to learn more about the API, download the API and to view the documentation with live examples.

- JavaScript v2.0.2 released.
- Android SDK v1.0.0 released.
- iOS SDK v2.0.0 released.

mapIT Africa Developer Zone now live.