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The good news: here at Google, we’re constantly increasing map coverage internationally: pushing out new tile updates, adding geocoding/routing data, collecting local business results, etc. The bad news: it’s not easy keeping up with the coverage and remembering where we have what. I can barely keep track, and it’s my job.
So, [...]

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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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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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Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs Team
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. [...]

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