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If you have spent any time in certain corners of the web, you will have heard of Microformats: Clever uses of HTML that add machine-readability to everyday web pages while preserving human-readability. Microformats allow tools to make more sense of your web pages, while not changing the visual appearance for visitors to your [...]

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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 utilized GoogleLookup functions in a [...]

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In June, we released ExtMapTypeControl, an open-source map type control that includes an optional “Traffic” button. Some developers were disappointed that the traffic button did not hide and show depending on whether traffic was available in the current viewport, as the button in maps.google.com does.
In this week’s release of API v2.86, there is [...]

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