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Relief maps have finally come — natively, that is — to Google Maps with the release of its “Terrain” layer (the Hybrid layer moves to a checkbox on the Satellite layer, hiding or revealing street data). As is often the case with Google, they aren’t the first — Ask.com, Virtual Earth and Yahoo [...]

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Are your map’s info windows bursting with information, barely able to contain it all? Well, let them burst — into maximized info windows. In v2.93, the team has added various options, functions, and events to expand GInfoWindow, letting you mimic the behavior of the Google Maps local search result info windows, which [...]

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Recently, we surveyed developers to find out who had read and benefited from one of our popular PHP/MySQL articles: “Using PHP/MySQL with Google Maps” and “Using PHP and MySQL to create KML.” We got quite a few responses. Here are just two of the nifty sites they told us about:

SuburbView: This Australian real [...]

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Over the past few months, the AJAX Search API team has launched and improved their LocalSearch control for the Maps API. The LocalSearch control makes it easy for developers to add local business search functionality to their mashups.
Here on the Maps API team, we liked the LocalSearch control so much that we wanted [...]

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It’s that time of year again: the leaves turn orange and fall off the trees, and I can no longer turn on the TV without fear of stumbling upon a trailer for some ridiculously gory horror movie sequel. The TV used to be a safe, happy place filled with frolicking Care Bears. Someone [...]

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We’ve added two great new KML articles to code.google.com.

First, we’ve added a new article on “Time and Animation” to our “Topics in KML” series. The ability to associate geospatial elements with temporal data was added about a year ago to Google Earth 4.0, but this is the first extensive article we’ve published about [...]

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Remember way back in the 90s when every website’s front page included a clickable image map? Those were good times, and I’m always a fan of bringing back good times. When a developer suggested in the forum that invisible clickable GPolygons could be used to create a pseudo image map, I jumped at [...]

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The recent Google Earth 4.2 release added the ability to view Flash content, in Windows versions of Earth. This is great news for KML authors, especially given how easy it is to include Flash in your info bubbles. All you have to do is use the param and embed tags, just as if [...]

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We’re happy to announce that the Google Mapplets documentation has been given a makeover similar to that which the main Google Maps API documentation underwent in September. We took this opportunity to greatly expand documentation for Mapplets and add many more relevant examples. In specific, we tried to convert all existing Maps API [...]

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Maps has just added support for view and interval based refresh in KML Network Links. This means that NetworkLinks can now provide you with dynamic, living content. You can, for instance, refresh marker locations every few seconds, or load only the geometry contained within the current viewport. This reduces load on your server [...]

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Google Project Hosting is a nifty place to store an open source project - besides offering an SVN (Subversion) repository, it also includes a wiki and an easy-to-use bug reporting system. A developer took advantage of that system to report that LabeledMarker v1.0 needed its own show and hide methods. While putting those [...]

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Realius Fantasy Real Estate Game (WARNING: Very addictive!)

This *addictive* Bay Area (US) real estate game uses Google Maps to challenge you to tour a home and set its market price right on the spot. Nail the price and it earns you big points. I was getting to know a particular neighborhood and nailing [...]

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The Turkey / Thanksgiving Day Mashup:

Virender Ajmani helps us locate Cities/Towns in the US named TURKEY, claiming to be the “Turkey Capital of the US/World”, those named “Plymouth” or “Cranberry”
Armchair Parade Watching - A post from the Google Lat Long Blog showing links to popular parade maps like the NYC Thanksgiving [...]

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Routescanner scans your route before you travel! Paul Clarke has created this great Google Maps tool which searches and displays all real-time traffic info and speed cameras along a specific route you specify. It combines the same driving directions engine that Google Maps uses with real-time information provided by BBC Travel and [...]

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