This is a good example of abstraction in general – maps being a good candidate for it. Well done.

The URL to the Mapstraction JS does not work (anymore?). Instead of http://mapstraction.com/src/mapstraction.js you should either use http://mapstraction.com/svn/source/mapstraction.js or maybe even better download the whole thing to your disk and include it from there.

Thanks Philipp, I fixed the link for http://mapstraction.com/src/mapstraction.js. Either will work.

But you’re correct, it is best to grab a snapshot from the Subversion repository so you can control any updates that happen to the API.

Very, very nice!
I would love to see mapstraction given its own namespace, since there are quite many useful javascript libraries out there today :)

I had previously never heared of mapstraction, but it sounds like a really, really good idea, one I’ll certainly use in an upcoming project! Thank you for your article :)