August 25th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
A lot of map mashups out there have country-wide or world-wide content. That’s awesome because it means there’s something for everyone. What’s not so awesome is that it means that when I get to the map, I often hav…
Do You Speak Selenese? Contribute to our Maps API Tests!
August 19th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Aviv, Maps API Team
Before we release a new version of the Maps API, we always run it through a huge bank of tests to make sure standard functionality is working. But one thing we’ve realized since releasing the Maps API and watching its ad…
Flash Developers Need Some Direction in Life Too
August 18th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Scott Kilpatrick, Maps API Team
Good arvo from Sydney, Australia, where it’s beautiful even in the dead of winter and the people use contrived abbreviations for literally everything. I kid, I kid. Australia is great, and the vegemite is ev…
Using Google Maps to Visualize ArcGIS Data & Services
August 12th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Sterling Quinn, ESRI Developer
Hi, I’m Sterling Quinn and I work on the development team for server-based GIS technologies at ESRI in Redlands, California. We’re happy to report that ESRI software users can now expose their GIS in Googl…
New Earth API resources: Complete API Reference, Sample Code, Release Notes, FAQ
August 7th, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo Developer Advocate
This has been a busy week! We’ve released four new resources to help you with the Google Earth API.
We’ve updated the Google Earth API reference. While there haven’t been substantive changes to the API, the…
August 4th, 2008 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
Posted by Roman Nurik, Earth API Team
Howdy, y’all. My name is Roman Nurik and I’m a newly minted member of the Google Geo APIs team. Some of you may already know me from the Earth Browser Plug-in Google Group. I recently started at Google’s headquart…
July 24th, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Bjørn Sandvik,thematicmapping.org
Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) lets you create thematic or statistical maps on-the-fly in the web browser. It then returns a KMZ file which you can view directly with the Google Earth browser plugin, or you…
July 21st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Jim Payne and Brandon Badger, Maps API Team
Our Maps API team strives each day to develop features to help developers build the next generation of great maps mashups. One of the requests that we’ve received from our developer community is t…
Wacky Wednesday: Change the background color of your map!
July 17th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Sometimes, we fulfill feature requests that we never realized we had, and then wonder why it took us so long to discover that hidden desire in our heart. GMapOptions.backgroundColor, introduced in 2.119, is one of th…
July 16th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Last Saturday I had dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond District. While it didn’t look like much from the outside, the inside displayed a variety of Southeast Asian antiques and the walls were adorned with tap…
July 10th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Justin Kosslyn, Google Spreadsheet Team
In the past, Pamela’s blogged about ways to create map mashups out of published spreadsheets using the Spreadsheets GData API. Well now we have a more integrated approach using spreadsheets gadgets. For…
Using Static Maps and HTTP Geocoding to Location-enable Lonely Planet Mobile
July 8th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
We at Lonely Planet are thrilled to share some experiences from our latest project, http://m.lonelyplanet.com, a location-based world travel guide for mobile devices enabled by mashing the Google Static Maps API, the Google HTTP geocoder, and our new …
July 3rd, 2008 | by Michael Weiss-Malik | published in Google Maps
Hi. This is Craig Johnston and Brian Hull of Sudjam, LLC, the company hosting and developing the new online presence for the band Nine Inch Nails. This guest blog entry will cover how we went about creating a Google Earth representation of downloads fo…
July 1st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
First, let’s go over a few new features for static maps:
We support larger maps, up to 640X640 pixels.We use a more compact Google logo for maps less than 100 pixels wide.We support the ability to specify a map view…
June 27th, 2008 | by Michael Weiss-Malik | published in Google Maps
Many of you are probably familiar with Feed Validator, a free service that checks to see if your feeds, including KML, are valid, and also makes recommendations based on best practices. Now Galdos Systems has released a new service, KML Validator, spec…