July 17th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
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…
July 16th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Last Saturday I had dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond District. While it didn’t look like much from the outside, the inside displayed a variety of Southeast Asian antiques and the walls were adorned with tap…
July 10th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
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…
July 8th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
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 …
July 3rd, 2008 | by Michael Weiss-Malik | published in Google Maps
Hi. This is Craig Johnston and Brian Hull of Sudjam, LLC, the company hosting and developing the new online presence for the band Nine Inch Nails. This guest blog entry will cover how we went about creating a Google Earth representation of downloads fo…
July 1st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
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…
June 27th, 2008 | by Michael Weiss-Malik | published in Google Maps
Many of you are probably familiar with Feed Validator, a free service that checks to see if your feeds, including KML, are valid, and also makes recommendations based on best practices. Now Galdos Systems has released a new service, KML Validator, spec…
June 19th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
A few weeks ago, we launched two layers on maps.google.com, accessible via the “More..” button. The photos layer displays Panoramio photos, continuously loading in more photos as you zoom in, and letting you click the photos to see the info window with…
June 13th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
On May 28th & 29th, several thousand developers descended upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco to participate in Google I/O, our largest developer event to date. Among those were hundreds of geo developers, and I felt fortunate to be able to meet f…
June 9th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
360cities.net is a virtual reality network with panoramas from all around the world. They bring us fantastic depictions of the world’s beauty and human creativity.
They also happen to take advantage of almost every Geo API that we have! We were fortuna…
June 4th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Hi! I’m Katsuomi Kobayashi, a developer from Osaka, Japan. I’m delighted to write as a guest on this blog.
2D Driving Simulator on Google Maps is a personal project of mine. With the power of Google Maps, you can drive around the world without having t…
June 2nd, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs team
By now, many of you have heard about the new Google Earth API that we announced Wednesday during Google I/O. It’s exciting that you can now enjoy the 3D Google Earth experience in the browser, and you can create yo…
May 28th, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Maps
We created the Google Maps API Blog in November 2005 to better connect with Google Maps API developers. At that time, Google Maps itself was still a young product. The blog offered timely and targeted announcements of interest to Maps API developers, a…