Archive for the ‘Google Maps API’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
MapIconFactory 1.0: The Easy Way to Make Your Markers Meaningful
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
In the talk I gave last fall about Maps Mashups Usability, I mentioned that one way to make your map more informative at first glance is to use the color and size of a marker ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
MarkerTracker 1.0: "Which way did he go, George?"
Posted by Dan Rummel, Maps API Developer
Hi everyone, my name is Dan Rummel and I've been hacking Google Maps out of the San Francisco area for a couple years now. Recently I have been working hard on a start-up with a couple of ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Put down your language learning books, we've got transliterated tiles in the API!
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Due to the usage of non-latin characters in languages like Russian, and our decision to label countries and cities in their native tongue, I've always found browsing foreign countries in Google Maps ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Orbitz Mobile Traffic Maps: A Static Maps Story
Posted by Joe Monahan, Maps API Developer
It is my pleasure to be asked by Pamela to write another guest blog post; this time to discuss my experiences in using the new Static Maps API to enhance our Orbitz TLC Traveler Update mobile airport ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Introducing the Maps API Demo Gallery
Posted by Pamela Fox, Google Maps API Team
Why re-invent the wheel when you can copy and paste our wheel instead?
In the Google Maps API group and in my Inbox, developers often ask me questions such as "How do I draw a circle on the map?" ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Google Maps Without the Scripting
Posted by Tom Manshreck, Maps API Team
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably already use the Google Maps API and love it as much as we do! But you may find it not useful for certain cases: the Google Maps API requires JavaScript, ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Mash your way to a better world
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs Team
Our friends up at NetSquared recently opened a mashup challenge to engage developers in helping nonprofits realize some of their web ideas. The concept is pretty simple. First, nonprofits post ideas on data they have and ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Creating a User-Contributed Map: Look, Ma - No server side scripts!
Posted by Keir Clarke, Virtual Tourism Blog Author and Google Maps Mania Blog Contributor
Pamela Fox wrote a wonderful tutorial in November called Creating a User-Contributed Map with PHP and Google Spreadsheets. However if you are like me, the thought of ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Send a geo-located Valentine's Day card or just break some hearts!
Posted by Pamela Fox, Google Maps API Team
It's Valentine's Day. For millions of people, that means a day filled with outpourings of love, diamonds, and chocolate. For another gazillion people, it means cursing Hallmark and wondering why people can't keep ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Screencast: Using Debugging Tools with the Maps API
When I was a little kid, I took ice skating lessons (amongst other sports lessons which ultimately led me to conclude that I'm possibly the least athletic tomboy ever). I distinctly remember what we learned on the first day of lessons: not how ...
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