Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Back when we announced the “Google Maps API for Flash” in May, there were a large amount of Flash CS3 developers who were miffed at our lack of support for using the API in their favorite program, and quickly made …
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Back in May, we released a feature in Google Maps that let users toggle on additional “layers” of information on top of the map, starting with Panoramio and Wikipedia options. Both of these layers display thousands …
Posted Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Back when I was attending high school in Syracuse, NY, I did the typical teenager thing and learned how to drive a car. Syracuse is a (relatively) large city in the middle of upstate NY, so getting from point A to poin…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Sometimes there’s functionality that’s ridiculously useful for a niche group of developers, and completely unnecessary for others. That’s the kind of functionality that’s now available in our brand spanking new “Go…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
So, it appears that a few thousand of you developers were sending our static map server requests with “&maptype=satellite” in them. Why would you do that? Did you think that we’d see all the requests and just decid…
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
In the first release of MapIconMaker, we gave developers the ability to create dynamically resized and colored marker-shaped icons. Now with the second version, we’re adding two entirely new types of customizable i…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…