August 12th, 2009 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
September 3rd, 2009, from 11 to 6, Google is hosting a hackathon for our Google Geo APIs in our Seattle offices. At the hackathon, you can code on our Google Geo APIs, with the guidance of Google Engineers. We’ll provide you with suggested codelabs, or…
August 6th, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
I’m Simon, and I work as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. One of the benefits of working here is that I get to choose interesting 20% projects to work on. Recently, I worked with Project Vulcan at Purdue University to create a map that visualize…
July 31st, 2009 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
2-D maps are great, but sometimes it’s cool to gaze into the distance. Today we’re happy to announce support for perspective in the Maps API for Flash. We’ve taken the regular API, added pitch and yaw, borrowed the look-around control from Google Eart…
July 27th, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
My name is XIAO Juguang – just call me Juguang. I am a freelance software developer based in Beijing, China. Technically speaking, I’m double sided. On one side, I specialize in knowledge management and business modeling, traditionally using LAMP and…
July 23rd, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
I’m a big fan of the iPhone. I’m also a big fan of the web. So, naturally, I’m excited that today we’re finally releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application running in Safari.Our Latitude web app provides all the core functi…
July 23rd, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise, Google Maps
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Bryan MacDonald, Chief Technology Officer at the School Systems group of Pearson – an international media company specializing in education, business information, and consumer publishing – as our guest blog…
July 21st, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
This Monday, at the Newseum in Washington D.C., we unveiled Moon in Google Earth as the newest 3D-navigable celestial sphere, after Mars and Sky. Users can now explore some fantastic 3D terrain and imagery of the moon’s surface, as well as exciting int…
June 25th, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
At Google I/O 2009, we had the opportunity to meet many of our favorite developers in the Sandbox and Office Hours, and deliver several advanced talks on geo topics. Check out the description of those sessions below (originally posted on the Google Co…
June 22nd, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in clustering algorithms. The client-side grid-based MarkerClusterer was released in the open source library this year, and various server-side algorithms were discussed in the Performance Tips I/O talk. We’ve…
June 16th, 2009 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
When you’re showing satellite imagery with our Maps API, it’s often the case that you want to show the most detailed imagery available. But it’s always been tricky figuring out the best zoom level for a particular location. If you don’t zoom in far e…
June 14th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Today we’re releasing an upgrade to Google Maps for Android-powered phones. We’ve added a whole host of new features and fixed a few issues with Google Latitude.You can now search Google Maps for Android using your voice, making it easier than ever to …
June 5th, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
Last week at Google I/O we released the Google Maps API (JavaScript version) addition to the Developer Qualification program. Designed for professionals who currently develop or want to develop applications based on Google and Google-sponsored Open Sou…
June 5th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
As mobile technology geeks, we’re really excited to see a new smartphone launch from our friends at Palm. Palm Pre phone’s webOS works great with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube, which are built into the device. You can also easily sync your …
June 2nd, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise, Google Maps
If your enterprise maintains one or more physical locations, you may already know that roughly 80% of consumers use search to find local businesses. But unless those customers are also visiting your website directly, you may not know much about how tho…
May 29th, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
When the Earth API launched back in May 2008, there was a simultaneous addition to the Maps API that allowed creating an ‘Earth’ map type with just a single line of code:
map.addMapType(G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP);
This was really the first time that the 2D…
