Archive for the ‘Google Maps API’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Calling all local developers: Join us at the Googleplex for workshops, hackathons, and more!
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
In the next two months, we'll be holding several events at the Googleplex that we want local Geo/Javascript developers to attend. First, we have our Google Geo Developer Series, kickstarting on ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
こんにちは and 你好 from Google Maps
Posted by Tom Manshreck, Google Maps API
開発者のみなさん、こんにちは and 您好，开发者！ (Hello Developers!)
(This post has been translated into Japanese and Simplified Chinese.)
Google operates worldwide, and nowhere is that more self-evident than in Google Maps, where you can actually see the world! We are happy to announce that ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Article: Creating a Store Locator with PHP & MySQL
I know, I know. Another PHP/MySQL article! I swore that my next article would be something completely different, but then my colleague emailed me some SQL for distance calculation, I plugged it into the PHP code from previous articles, and the result ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Put Your Map on the Map!
Posted by Bill Chadwick, Community Developer
I'm Bill Chadwick, a Google Maps API developer from the UK. In my spare time I like to go caving. We cavers like to see how caves relate to the surface features so overlaying cave surveys on Google Maps ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
2007 Wrap-up II: KML is Outta This World
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo API Team
A couple of weeks ago, Pamela Fox presented a 2007 wrap-up for the Maps API. So I thought this week, in honor of Pamela's year here, and a pretty amazing year for KML, I'd try to come ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
New Years Resolution: More Usable Mashups!
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
We're always blabbering on this blog about code this, program that. Well, having a working and functional map is good and all, but what about having a map that users actually enjoy using? Translating geospatial information into a small ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
2007 Wrap Up: A Map-tastic Year!
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Almost exactly a year ago, I joined the Maps API team to be a middleman(woman) between the literally thousands of Google Maps API developers and our internal Geo teams. So this post is both a summary of the 2007 ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
How GGoogleBarOptions Got Me a Job!
Posted by Vanessa Bernstein, Schoolteacher
I'm Vanessa Bernstein, a substitute schoolteacher living in Orlando, Florida. To find jobs, I use the painfully primitive online system of a subcontractor of the Orange County Public Schools. My problem: I can only search all available substitute teaching jobs in ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Don't stare out the window to track Santa - use Google Maps or Earth instead!
Posted by Pamela Fox & Michael Ashbridge, Google Geo Team
As announced on the Google blog in November, we've partnered with NORAD to provide real-time Santa tracking via iGoogle, Youtube, Google Earth, and the Google Maps API. ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
ExtInfoWindow 1.0: Ajax powered, CSS customization
Posted by Joe Monahan, Maps API Developer
I'm Joe Monahan, a 27 year old cyclist originally from South Plainfield, NJ and now living in Chicago, IL where I work the days away as a User Interface Engineer with Orbitz.com.
I'm excited to announce an addition to ...
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