What Developers Need to Know About Instagram's Policy Changes

Developers who use Instagram's API to build new products or services on the photo-sharing site may be giving their ideas away for free. Just ask the creators of Instamap.

Developers who use Instagram’s API to build new products or services on the photo-sharing site may be giving their ideas away for free. Just ask the creators of Instamap.

In August 2012, Instagram released version 3.0 of its mobile app, which included a photo mapping tool that uses geo-tagging to display users’ images on a map.

The Photo Maps were beautiful additions to the image-sharing service that, unfortunately, had already been on the market for more than a year.

 

Ștefan Filip and Raul Andrișan of NextRoot

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