A common operation in Maps API applications is to search a spatial database for locations within a certain distance of a point. It can also be useful to offer search along a route, for example to find hotels, restaurants, or service stations on a long…
Since being formalized as an Open Geospatial Consortium standard, KML has become something of a lingua franca for geospatial information. From humble beginnings in Google Earth, KML support can now be found in a wide variety of mapping products and ser…
The Google Maps Data API is a great way to host your geographic data on Google’s scalable, high-performance servers, making your data accessible across platforms using HTTP or one of our client language libraries.
In December, we announced spatial a…
Lombard Street, San Francisco is featured on a million postcards as "the crookedest street in the world" due to the 8 hairpin bends on the block between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets. The famous turns are clearly visible on a map, but it is no…
Google Code is running a pilot on user-contributed notes to the API documentation. This feature is currently enabled for the documentation of a handful of products, including the Google SketchUp Ruby API! The ultimate goal of this feature is to provi…
When we launched the Google Maps JavaScript API v3 last year our goal was to develop a framework in which we could deliver compelling and innovative features to our developers that cater to the new breed of location-aware mobile internet devices.
As w…
When we launched Directions in Maps API v3 last year we asked “Where will you go from here?”. You may have asked the same question of us, and today we’re pleased to be taking another step forward with several new Maps API v3 Directions features.
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Geocoding – finding the geographical location of a given address – is one of the most popular features of the Google Maps API. Both the JavaScript Maps APIs and the Maps API for Flash include classes that enable applications to perform geocoding, and t…
Over the last couple of years, my office has been working on using the Google Maps API to display the Missouri State University campus map. The map is used by campus faculty, staff, students, and visitors and includes buildings, parking and transit …
For Australia Day this year I took a trip with some friends to the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia. World renowned for the arts, world class sporting events, and a relaxed cafe culture, it’s also well known for what Wikipedia tactfully calls “i…
We were thrilled by the overall positive feedback we received after last year’s I/O, but one thing we heard over and over again (in surveys and by word of mouth during the conference): developers wanted more Google Maps and Earth content. That’s why I…