Over the last four years, developers have created hundreds of thousands of mashups that use the various Maps APIs. These range from practical and useful to fun and bizarre. With so many API sites out there, how do you find one about a specific topic …
One of the primary uses of a map has always been to figure out how to get from point A to point B. Until now the only way users of our Maps API v3 could put directions on their map was to draw a straight polyline and tell people to fly. Well, fret no m…
Good morning! G’day! Bom dia! Bonjour! доброе утро! 早安! നമസ്കാരമ്!
доброго ранку!
This is how we, members of the Maps API team, would salute each other
if we decided to use our native languages in the morn…
As you may have seen on the Lat Long blog today, we’ve made some significant changes to the map data for the United States. We’re excited to bring new features and functionality to Google Maps, including comprehensive parcel data, more detailed natural…
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…
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…
Since our last major release of the JavaScript Maps API three years ago we’ve been delivering feature requests that all of you have been asking for month over month. With over 150,000 active websites implementing it, the Maps API has become one of the…
Posted by Mickey Kataria, Product Manager
With the recent announcement of Google Code Labs, we wanted to update you on what’s happening with the Maps and Earth APIs. We’re excited to tell you that none of the Maps APIs (JavaScript, Flash, Static, M…
Posted by Lalitesh Katragadda and Lior Ron, Map Maker Team
Since June 2008, thousands of passionate users have been mapping their heart out in mapmaker.google.com. The maps made are some of the finest ever seen in these 160+ countries. In a developer …
Posted by Mickey Kataria, Product Manager
From time to time we release updates to the terms of service governing our products. We recently released an updated version of the Google Maps API Terms of Service. Based on feedback from that update, we ar…
Posted by Mickey Kataria, Product Manager
It’s been a while since we’ve made any changes to the Terms of Service for the Maps API. Since I joined the team, I’ve been hearing day after day that we need to clarify a lot of ambiguities and make it easie…
Posted by Mickey Kataria, Google ZürichSince the launch of Sitemaps, webmasters have been asking if they could submit their Sitemaps for multiple hosts on a single dedicated host. A fair question — and now you can!Why would someone want to do this? L…
Written by Mickey Kataria, Google ZürichThe Sitemaps team is continuing its trend of extending the Sitemap Protocol for specific products and content types. Our latest work with the Google Code Search team now enables you to create Sitemaps that cont…