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Google Releases Maps API for External Use

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

bahree writes "Google now has officially released their API's for Google Maps; till now there were a few hacks in place such as my where I work, but now its all supported. You would need to get a key, which is associated with a specific url, you can get that here and also read up on all the fun details here." CT: Sorry for the dupe. Teach me to forget to relaunch my mail client.

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  1. my favorite google map hacks :) by professorhojo · · Score: 5, Informative

    HousingMaps
    Google/Yahoo Traffic Maps
    Traffic Monitor
    Cheap Gas
    Chicago Crime Map
    Earthquake Viewer
    Google Maps Plugin for Mac OS X

    can't wait to see what's next :)))

    1. Re:my favorite google map hacks :) by fo0bar · · Score: 2, Informative

      I created a map hack for all recent recorded Nevada and Eastern California earthquakes a couple weeks ago. A few days ago, the hack stopped working. I noticed Google changed their code and many of the map hack sites stopped working. "Oh well, maybe I'll fix it later."

      But with today's announcement, I grabbed a key, read the documentation, and had the site back up (and with a few new features) within about an hour. Their API documentation is VERY good.

  2. dupe by garbletext · · Score: 3, Informative

    As if we don't already get enough google news...

  3. shameless plug by harshaw · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are a number of fantastic google maps hacks site popping up.

    You might want to check out placeshare.org to see a simple site that does flikr style tagging with user managed locations.

    There are a couple other sites that are moving in the same direction... there were some excellent demo's at the where2.0 conference yesterday.

  4. Re:satellite view by mogrify · · Score: 3, Informative

    It does. You have to do

    map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());

    --
    perl -e 'foreach(values %SIG){$_="IGNORE";}while(){}'
  5. "Re:50K Pageviews" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    "A "page view" is the number of times users download the JavaScript, not the number of map tiles, so it is a fairly high limit for most sites. Also, we are not restricting use of the API to small sites -- we are just asking that sites who have more page views than 50K contact us first to ask permission so we can make sure we can handle the load.

    Bret Taylor
    Product Manager, Google Maps"

  6. Google Maps Wiki by yellowbkpk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Forgive the karma whoring, but I host a Google Maps wiki at the following URL:

    http://gmaps.yellowbkpk.com/

    So far people have posted their sample Google Map mashups there along with some code samples. Most of this was done before the Google Maps API was released, so some of the sites may not work due to the new javascript file version.

    Also, make sure to check out the Google-Maps-API and Google-Maps Google Groups. The Google-Maps-API group is particularly active and there ahve been over 100 posts just today.