Five Great Styled Maps Examples
Last May at Google I/O, we introduced Styled Maps which offers control over map features and color schemes. Stylishly ending the “one-size-fits-all” approach to base maps.
This new cartographic concept was met with a lot of excitement for where d…
The following guest blog post was written by Albert Sun of the Wall Street Journal. He takes us behind the scenes in the creation of a recent news graphic titled: “Going the Distance: Comparing Marathons”.
The Google Maps API has been a great boon fo…
Google Maps API for Flash at Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE
The following is a guest blog post by Kevin MacDonald of ThinkWrap Solutions
We’re coming to you live from the Michigan International Speedway, where the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE (PIAXP) competition is underway.
This competition will …
Today is an important milestone here at Google and we’re all pretty excited – the Google Maps API turns 5! It was five years ago today that we posted a brief announcement to let the world know about the JavaScript Maps API and now 5 years later mor…
Announcing the Google Qualified JavaScript Maps API V3 Developer program
Last year, we launched the Google Qualified JS Maps Developer Program. This qualification, and your inclusion in the directory, will help interested parties contract with you for their geo development projects. Hot on the heels of the Maps API V3 gra…
(Cross posted from the Google Code Blog)
Thanks from the Geo API team for a making Google I/O a great event yet again! We really look at I/O as being for developers by developers, so each year our API engineering team makes the pilgrimage from Sydney…
If you have ever tried to plot a very large number of overlays on an API map you have probably reached a point at which the performance of your application begins to suffer. With one hundred or so markers, most browsers cope just fine, and clustering s…
This post from the Google Code Blog is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. This guest post is written by Adrian Graham, co-founder of nextstop.com who…
You may recall that in October of last year we updated the map data for the United States and added a “Report a Problem” link to maps that allows users and developers to notify us of corrections that are needed. Today we are happy to extend these updat…
Are you a geo developer with an interest in creating the next wave of transit tools and mashups for mobile devices and the web? If so, we’d love to see you at the first ever “Unconference for Developers” put on by the Metropolitan Transportation Aut…
Back in December we introduced new high-resolution aerial imagery to the Google Maps API for 2 US cities – San Jose and San Diego, CA. When we went public we promised you more locations so today we’re excited to announce the addition of 3 more US citi…
Back when I was still an intern at Google, I went on a road trip
around California with a couple of friends while armed with nothing
but a car, a cheap GPS and pure naiveté. Upon arriving at San Diego,
we parked in the middle of the city, wandered aro…
Since we launched AdSense for Maps many developers have shared their experiences with monetizing their Google Maps API implementations. Here is a detailed, first hand account from one developer..
Hi, I’m Martin Fröhlich from Maplandia, a world gazett…
Today we are excited to announce the Maps Ad Unit, a new feature that will enable geo developers to generate advertising revenue from their Google Maps API implementations.
The Maps Ad Unit joins the recently updated GoogleBar as part of the AdSense f…