Google Releases API for Google Maps

Elyscape writes "The Google Blog announced today the release of an API for Google Maps. While the use of the API requires a key that limits the owner to 50K pageviews a day, which is similar to but far more generous than Google's Web Search API, Google notes that they are willing to work something out with website owners who expect to breach that large barrier. This release definitely opens the door for (or, at least, eases the creation of) more advanced Google-Maps-based applications. On the negative side, it broke several current Google-Maps-based sites, such as ChicagoCrime.org. So get started! Go to the Google Maps API home, sign up for a key, and go wild! (Note: going wild may entail fixing broken sites. It does not necessarily entail actually visiting the wild.)

Comments

50K Pageviews

[Mr.Sharpy]

I suppose the question is, do they consider each tile you load from their map server a page view? If they do, it wouldn't take many users scrolling around on the maps to get their.

no geocoding ... yet

[enrico_suave]

I'm a little dissapointed the geocoding functions didn't make the first release of the API (and hope they are added/included soon).

e.

Well done, Documentation

[Free_Trial_Thinking]

That is well done, that's how documentation should be, just tell me how to do all the common things I might want to do:

move the map
goto a location
blah blah

Try finding useful information like that in under 10 minutes on almost any existing "API".