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Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Maps API
Looking to drive more traffic to your Maps API site? Mapplets have now been launched on Google Maps and are a great way to reach users with your geospatial data. You can create your whole mashup inside a Mapplet, or you can use it as a teaser [...]

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Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team

We’re quite proud that the Google Maps API community is an active bunch in Europe, and particularly, the United Kingdom. To thank all those enthusiastic developers in the UK, we’re happy to announce that the Maps API geocoder now supports address geocoding for United Kingdom addresses. I can [...]

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Posted by Mano Marks, Geo API Team

Today, Google launched the Google Earth Outreach program to help non-profit organizations showcase their content in Google Earth using KML. This site is a great resource for non-profits, and also for the rest of us. These are some of the great resources on the site:

Tutorials on a variety [...]

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Did you ever wonder what Lewis and Clark said about your hometown as they passed through? What about if any other historical figures wrote about your part of the world? Earlier this year, we announced a first step toward geomapping the world’s literary information by starting to integrate information [...]

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::: via lightweight client for ArcServer”. Interestingly, ArcGIS Explorer is not actually tied to any other ESRI products. It and an SDK to develop customized tasks are free to download, and (as far as I can tell) free to deploy.
What this means is that ArcGIS Explorer can be used as an interface for all sorts [...]

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::: viaPosted by Richard Garland (”Papa Bear”), Maps API Developer

Check out Richard’s first guest blog post here: DragZoomControl 1.1.

Like many developers, my maps often have a great number of markers in a small geographic area, but these areas may be few and far between in the larger area of the full map. Perhaps you are [...]

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I just can’t help myself. I am having too much fun playing virtual tourist with the Panoramio layer in Google Earth. If you are not familiar with this feature, be sure to check it out.
Simply navigate to a favorite destination (say Venice, Italy). In the Layers panel, check Geographic Web > Panoramio. Just start [...]

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Mano Marks, Geo API Team

There are three new useful resources up for those of you who are working with KML (or thinking about working with KML!)

First, there we’ve added a page to the KML documentation on Google Search for KML Files and GeoRSS Feeds. This guide takes you through the basic ways to make [...]

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Over the past few weeks, we enabled geocoding in the API for India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Ireland. That means there are potentially 1.1 billion more users that might now be able to locate themselves on your map - that’s about 1/5 of the world’s population. (I [...]

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::: viaWhen you create content in Google Earth (such as a placemark), this content resides on your computer unpublished until you decide to share this content with others. So if you mark the location of your home, no one can see this placemark until you explicitly share it with others.
Google does not collect or view [...]

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GGeoXML Methods:
When we released GGeoXML, the class used for overlaying KML/GeoRSS files on API maps, we promised we’d continually improve it and add more features. The engineers added support for Ground Overlays and Network Links soon thereafter, and now they’ve given developers GGeoXML functions to make loading and viewing files easier. GGeoXML now comes [...]

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::: viaPosted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Maps API
Looking to drive more traffic to your Maps API site? Mapplets have now been launched on Google Maps and are a great way to reach users with your geospatial data. You can create your whole mashup inside a Mapplet, or you can use it as a teaser [...]

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::: viaPosted by Bryan Atwood, Google Maps for Enterprise Team

Here at Google, the engineers love to add new features to the Maps API. In order to get these features in your eager coding hands as fast as we can, we currently update the Maps API about every two weeks. This breakneck pace is ideal for [...]

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::: viaPosted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team

We’re quite proud that the Google Maps API community is an active bunch in Europe, and particularly, the United Kingdom. To thank all those enthusiastic developers in the UK, we’re happy to announce that the Maps API geocoder now supports address geocoding for United Kingdom addresses. I can [...]

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If you were following the Google blogs yesterday, you would have heard that Picasa now gives you a sleek drag+drop interface for geotagging your photos, and that the Picasa Google data API now outputs the geotagged data using GeoRSS & GML elements. And if you were excited by [...]

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