Guest post by Bob Hitching, Director of Technology for Xumii, recently acquired by Myriad (Myriad Group AG), Europe’s largest mobile technology company with software in over 2 billion phones.Bob also writes about mobile + geo + social on his blog and…
Hi, I’m John Clegg of ProjectX. We build a range of map applications such as journeyplanners and addressing tools in Wellington, New Zealand. We have been working on a library to add more functionality to Street View called Mapsicle.
Ever since the rel…
We’ve just added Polylines and Polygons to Maps API v3. These allow you to draw lines or filled regions on the map, specify stroke and fill styles, and handle events. They work in all supported browsers.
We’ve also made a few improvements from Poly…
Hi everyone, my name is Masashi Katsumata. I’m a Maps API expert in Japan. I love playing around with the Maps APIs, and I share everything I learn on my website for Japanese speaking developers. But don’t worry, English speakers – I also like to cre…
My name is Wolfgang Pichler. I have been developing with the Google Maps JS API for a few years now, posting in the forums and publishing my various experiments for others to learn from.
When a user right-clicks on Google Maps, a context menu appear…
Obviously, we love when we see developers using the Maps API to create sophisticated and innovative applications. It makes us feel good that we put time into creating our APIs, and it excites us that there are so many creative developers in the world…
The Google Maps API v3, our new lightweight version of the JavaScript API, has been out for a few months now, and we want to help developers use this API with server-side scripting and databases. So, we’ve added an articles section to the documentatio…
Hi,I am Nianwei Liu, a web developer located in Charlotte, North Carolina that enjoy workings with various flavors of theGoogle Maps APIs.
A few weeks ago, Google announced 3D/perspective capability in the Flash API. If you would like to try out thi…
Two years ago, we announced the Static Maps API. This API allowed developers to generate images that represented maps with markers and paths, and to embed those images in webpages. Developers embraced this API as a way to put lightweight thumbnails on …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Posted by Chris Lambert, Software Engineer, Google Mobile
Today, we are pleased to announce the Google public location badge. In its simplest form, the badge is an easy way for Google Latitude users to share their current location to the world, whethe…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
It’s conference season, and the geo team is coming out in full force. Here are some of the upcoming conferences that we’ll be speaking at – if you attend any of these, be sure to say hi and let us know how you’re u…