Yahoo/OVI APIs and Flickr maps help needed

Your best best if just to use Google or Bing maps.

Don't go for the custom Google ones, they charge a bomb and lock down the access. If it's for a Uni project and you're being marked then your supervisor/teacher will have to jump through hoops to set it up on another domain which is a PITA.

Just go with basic maps that achieve what you want, both offer custom markers, and no-one is marking your work based on the pretty colours of the map tiles. (Unless you're doing a design course.)

I'm doing a BA in photography so the overall aesthetic of my final output will be a big part of it. Plus I talked about how shit Google maps looks in my pitch/proposal.

I started a similar project during the summer on an international design camp and we looked into it all then and found it pretty hard to change the look of google maps without paying a fortune, we ended up producing a small hand-drawn map of a village for our prototype but never got further than that.

I really don't fancy creating a hand drawn map of Glasgow and even if I did I'd have to make it scrollable which I don't know if is very easy. Using a premade map also means I can extend the project globally as my images allow (could do at least one or two other countries at the moment.)