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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. The tracking started at 2AM MST today, and will continue until Santa’s finished his global route at 2AM tomorrow. And since we’re all about dishing technical [...]

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Google Moon and Google Mars are great examples of what can be done with the Google Maps API. But in the rush to get both products out the door, we never quite got around to going the extra step and providing support in the Maps API itself for the tiles that Google Moon [...]

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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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About a month ago we introduced Gmap2.enableGoogleBar(), a command that puts our normal logo against a white background and adds an expandable local search box. The local search box is based on the configurable LocalSearchControl, so developers immediately asked when they’d be able to use the same options for the GoogleBar.
Well, a ton [...]

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Google just released the the Google Chart API. We don’t often boast about other non-Geo APIs in this blog, but this one is amazing, easy to use, and, best of all, has great potential for use in Geo apps.
Using the chart API is simple. By passing various parameters in the URL to the [...]

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As announced on the Google Lat Long Blog last week, Google Maps has added a new Terrain map type that displays physical features and, quite frankly, is just dang pretty to look at. If you haven’t tried it out yet, search for Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon, Glacier Bay National Park, or any [...]

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In this crazy Web 2.0 world, it’s all about one thing: the user. It’s about what the user wants from your site, and what the user can contribute to your site. That’s particularly true about map sites - the world is a big complicated place full of users who are experts on the [...]

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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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I was just emailed this great birds eye shot of the Garden of the gods in Colorado Springs. [info on GoG]

The elevation data stands up pretty well in 3D, but the Birds Eye shots are far more vibrant. Here’s a Collection of touristy stuff nearby that I found while exploring the area, including [...]

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David Barkol shows you how to reference the Virtual Earth v6 Map Control via HTTPS for authenticated/encrypted communication. For many of you this new feature in VE v6 isn’t needed and carries a few milliseconds of latency, but if you’re building enterprise applications that require secure communications there hasn’t been an easy way [...]

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The Google Earth blog posted a nice video of the new textured cityscape of Raleigh, NC featuring the Birds Eye overlay. The video looks good, but its so tiny that its difficult to make out the details. You can tell that Frank Taylor, the video’s creator, has logged a lot of hours with [...]

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Along with Yesterday’s mega release of imagery, the 3D team has pushed out nearly 60 new textured cities into the virtual world. I love the look of older cities like Liverpool when modeled in 3D. Turn on a layer of geodata contributed by other users across the web (Collections -> Explore menu) and [...]

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Marc DiGregorio from 3DVIA created some great sample house models using Virtual Earth – 3DVIA (Beta)! You can copy the models into your own Collections and even make further modifications on your own.
Here’s a short video of the house collection in Virtual Earth 3D.
And here’s the collection. You can copy these models to [...]

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Njection has a mashup showing Speedtraps around the world - you can add traps you know of to the database and surf those contributed by others. Seems like a good candidate for a mobile app or even better, a data feed into connected nav systems like the Garmin Nuvi. Switch into Birds Eye [...]

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