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Yesterday a friend sent me this amazing article in Wired chronicling the two week effort to right the 55,000 ton Cougar Ace which was floating on its side in the North pacific carrying nearly 5000 cars. The story is really captivating on its own as real life drama (Poseidon Adventure meets Die Hard [...]

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I’ve talked about the Carbon Project here in the past related to their Developer tools and Gaia viewer. It was nice to see this article in Mass High Tech highlighting their recent National Science Foundation grant to further development of their ((Echo))MyPlace software. Sounds like they are targeting this summer for a wide [...]

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Beautiful view of Notre Dame de Reims which was highlighted at Virtual Globetrotting the other day. After rotating around and exploring the building visually I was curious to find out more about it. Whenever you are looking at something in Live Maps the easiest way to learn more about it is to turn [...]

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Hi everyone, my name is Dan Rummel and I’ve been hacking Google Maps out of the San Francisco area for a couple years now. Recently I have been working hard on a start-up with a couple of college buddies: Seero.com (Putting live video on the map). In our UI, we want people to [...]

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Due to the usage of non-latin characters in languages like Russian, and our decision to label countries and cities in their native tongue, I’ve always found browsing foreign countries in Google Maps to be quite the educational experience. How else would I have discovered that other languages have such pretty swirly letters? Unfortunately, [...]

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It is my pleasure to be asked by Pamela to write another guest blog post; this time to discuss my experiences in using the new Static Maps API to enhance our Orbitz TLC Traveler Update mobile airport traffic page. I am pleased to report that although the API is in its early stages, [...]

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Why re-invent the wheel when you can copy and paste our wheel instead?
In the Google Maps API group and in my Inbox, developers often ask me questions such as “How do I draw a circle on the map?” or “How do I create groups of toggle-able markers?” Most of those questions are answered [...]

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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably already use the Google Maps API and love it as much as we do! But you may find it not useful for certain cases: the Google Maps API requires JavaScript, can take a while to load over slow connections, and requires some overhead [...]

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Geo APIs Team Our friends up at NetSquared recently opened a mashup challenge to engage developers in helping nonprofits realize some of their web ideas. The concept is pretty simple. First, nonprofits post ideas on data they have and what they’d like to be able do do with it on the web. Then, [...]

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Pamela Fox wrote a wonderful tutorial in November called Creating a User-Contributed Map with PHP and Google Spreadsheets. However if you are like me, the thought of having to tackle server-side scripting sends you running for the hills. Fortunately, the recent release of forms for Google Spreadsheets means it is now possible (with [...]

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It’s Valentine’s Day. For millions of people, that means a day filled with outpourings of love, diamonds, and chocolate. For another gazillion people, it means cursing Hallmark and wondering why people can’t keep their professions of love to their damn selves. Here at the Maps API blog, we are equally embracing of all [...]

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When I was a little kid, I took ice skating lessons (amongst other sports lessons which ultimately led me to conclude that I’m possibly the least athletic tomboy ever). I distinctly remember what we learned on the first day of lessons: not how to do cross-overs or pineapples, but how to fall. The [...]

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In the next two months, we’ll be holding several events at the Googleplex that we want local Geo/Javascript developers to attend. First, we have our Google Geo Developer Series, kickstarting on Wednesday, Feb. 20th with a hands-on workshop on “Quick & Dirty KML Creation” led by Mano [...]

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Update (via Bill): Official word from Google Lat/Lon Blog.
From Search Engine Land:
Yesterday Google told us that users will now be able to edit any of the details about a business or location or add new businesses even if they’re not the business owner. The capability doesn’t appear to be live yet however.
Greg Sterling asked about [...]

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CNN Money reports that both pending acquisitions of Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ have “lost their bearings.” NAVTEQ’s stock is trading almost $10 below the $78 per share offer from Nokia.
Yesterday was the deadline for TomTom to respond to EU questions about the acquisition. What did the EU ask?
Whether:
(1) TomTom and Tele Atlas would keep sensitive [...]

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