Nestoria integrates Mapstraction

We recently spoke with Nestoria co-founder Ed Freyfogle, about the importance of map integration and real estate search. Location, location location was the obvious answer, but why such heavy Gmap integration? Ed appreciated the criticism and revealed Nestoria's desire to "stay as flexible as possible" by supporting opensource mapping frameworks like Mapstraction. At the time Ed said he felt like it was "good for business".
Now today, Nestoria announces that they have started integrating the Mapstraction API; and that in the near future, this will allow users to choose from the most up to date features of all the mapping providers. Mapstraction provides a common API for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's mapping APIs enabling switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.
Mapstraction claims their aim is "mainly to protect companies building commercial products on top of Google Maps from changes to terms and conditions, the introduction of ads, or the emergence of a competing library with better maps, different imagery or preferable licensing terms." Very interesting development for Nestoria; it will be interesting to see if any of the new players using Gmap follow their strategy