Posted by Xiaoxi Wu, Community Developer
Hi, I’m Xiaoxi (Frank) Wu. I’m a software engineer working for Beyondsoft in Beijing China, where I’m currently working on Maps API applications. While I was learning the Google Maps API, I got a lot of help f…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Thanks to Google Alerts and Twitter search, I’m always finding articles and blog posts written by developers about using our various Maps APIs. On the assumption that not all developers are constantly monitoring th…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Due to the popularity of the demo galleries for our JavaScript and Flash APIs, we’ve added a demo gallery to the Mapplets API documentation as well. The demo gallery shows Mapplets created by both Google engineers …
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
The JavaScript API utility library has been growing fast in the last 3 months, with nearly double the number of libraries now being worked on in the development project. We can always use more libraries or help pre…
Posted by Jez Fletcher, Maps API team
Ever wanted to be someone else? No, we’re not offering a Being John Malkovich service, but we are offering Maps API developers the default look-and-feel of maps.google.com, all with one simple function call.
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Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Back in December, Julie posted on the Google LatLong blog about a new directions gadget that webmasters can embed on their websites to make it super easy for people to find them. Check out that post for information…
Posted by Nick Rabinowitz, UC Berkeley
Hi, I’m Nick Rabinowitz, guest poster. I’m a grad student at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the creator of TimeMap, a Javascript library that helps the Google Maps API play nicely with the SIMILE Time…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
You know what’s awesome about open-source code written in one language? It’s fairly easy to port it over to a similar language, and suddenly it’s useful for a completely new audience. That’s what’s happening in our…
Posted by Eric Ayers, Google Web Toolkit Team
The Geo and the Google Web Toolkit teams are pleased to announce the public release of the Maps API library for Google Web Toolkit. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) provides a framework for writing web applicati…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
In 2007, we wrapped up the year with a bulleted list of our various accomplishments from this year. In 2008, a few LIs and a UL just won’t do. So we’re celebrating the year in typical New Years fashion: fireworks, …
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
For the second year in a row, Google partnered with NORAD to provide an online map-based interface for tracking Santa’s Dec. 24th sleigh ride across the world. Last year, the map was powered with the JavaScript Map…
Posted by Björn Brala, GeoStart Lead Developer
Hi, my name is Björn Brala! In the last 2 years, I’ve been working on GeoStart, a framework based on the Maps API. In that time the community has been an invaluable source of information and help. Whil…
Posted by Dmitri Abramov, Maps API Team
Just a little over six months ago our team announced the release of the Google Maps API for Flash. Flash developers around the world welcomed this new API with excitement… and a barrage of feature requests. B…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
There are two recently released additions to the articles section of the documentation, for two completely different audiences. Check them out below:
Using PHP/MySQL with the Google Maps API for Flash
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Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
One of the first concepts I explain to developers that are new to mapping APIs is geocoding: the process of converting an address into a latitude/longitude pair. Approximately 99.9% of developers will have to use a…