Mashups – Not a new type of side Dish

mashupAPI’s have allowed the combination of several information stores to come up with a aggregated view of that same information that wouldn’t be available in it’s original form resulting in mash ups. To give an example of this, say you get a map from Google Maps and get information from a country’s travel authority about the location of the best tourist spots and combine them together to make-up a detailed map of the best tourist destinations in that said country. Add to that access to the national library where detailed discussion of each and every location can be found and you come up with a Mashup of information that all individual elements cannot provide making for one interactive map that would be very useful to first time travelers. The application of such relational data allows the combination of information their parent sources cannot provide and only made available with the combination of all the data stores.

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