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Mashable!: HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Google Maps
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: Google Earth browser plugin now available for Safari and Firefox on Mac
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.: Google's Latitude Adds Location-Sharing to Mobile Phones
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Google Maps
Mashable! —
... a variety of Firefox extensions that you can install to make your mapping mission a little more seamless.
I personally prefer Ubiquity for my mapping shortcuts. You can select an address on any page, initiate the Ubiquity command screen, qualify your query with “map,” adjust the map to your liking, and insert it in an email. Love it!
Reference API Tutorials
Should you choose to leverage the API to create your own concoctions, you might want to reference both the Google Maps ...
Google Earth browser plugin now available for Safari and Firefox on Mac
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code. ...
Google's Latitude Adds Location-Sharing to Mobile Phones
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... this space: Facebook and MySpace. Latitude will not fill the same functionality that I would expect the two lumbering giants of social networking to (eventually) include. If there other features you want add suggest and vote for them.
Google has actually had many of the tools for building Latitude available to third-parties for a while now. At Where 2.0 last year they announced their intention to release Geolocation Gears API. The other tools needed are Google Maps API and the Google Contacts Data API. Anyone could have built Latitude (and many have ...
Different Directions: Online mapping services are changing
Webware.com —
... Worse for competitors, the Google Maps API is being used by thousands across the globe who find unique ways to fit Google Maps into their businesses or personal lives. Sure, competitors like Yahoo offer an API too, but they're not nearly as popular or widely used as Google's. ...
New Google Code Labs Clarifies Commitments to Developers
ReadWriteWeb —
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By clarifying what's still in Labs and what's not, though, Google may enable other companies to know what they can depend on for building into products and what they might want to be cautious with. The Code Lab is not to be confused with the older and more general purpose Google Labs.
Who's worn the virtual cap and gown already? Twenty seven projects are listed as graduates, including the YouTube APIs, Maps APIs and (thank goodness) Contacts API. We've been wondering why more developers ...
In India, Online Maps Stay Ahead of the Spammers
Internet Evolution: —
... is a burgeoning industry here, especially since landmarks often substitute for logic in identifying and locating street addresses (e.g., opposite General Post Office, next to Krishna Temple, or behind Sports Complex). As more detailed street-level maps have emerged in the Indian market, digital versions for in-vehicle and Internet use have followed in their wake. Of the globally recognized online mapping platform providers, Google outpaces ...
12 APIs For Creating The Next Big Mashup
SitePoint —
... Google Maps: Easily one of the most popular APIs in the world, the Google Maps tool allows you to do just about everything a user can do on the standard Google Maps site. You can add Google AdSense to help monetize your mashup, cater to mobile customers and a whole lot more. Basically, if you can think of it, this API can handle it. ...
Hackathons for Google Geo APIs in NYC and Mountain View
D' Technology Weblog —
Google announced upcoming Google Geo APIs hackathons. First will held in November 20th @ New York, followed by a second in December 15th @ Mountain View, CA. This’ll be a great learning opportunity for any developer interested or currently involved in building Geo-enabled applications using APIs. Register using the above links.
Learn more about Google Geo APIs:
Google Maps API
Google Maps API V3
Google Maps API for Flash
Google Maps Data API ...
Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code [Programming]
Lifehacker —
... is a programmatic way for different pieces of software to talk to one another. For example, if you want to put a dynamic map on your web site, you want to use a Google Map instead of building your own custom map. The Google Maps API make it easy to programmatically include a map in a page with JavaScript. Almost every modern web service you know and love has an API that lets you include data and widgets from it in your application, like Twitter, Facebook, Google Docs, Google Maps, and the list goes on. Integrating other webapps into your web application via API's is the ...
