Official Google Maps API Blog: Microformats in Google Maps
Posted by Gregor J. Rothfuss, Maps Team and Kevin Marks, Apps Team 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 site o
Official Google Maps API Blog: Google Maps Without the Scripting
Posted by Tom Manshreck, Maps API Team 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 to maintain a dynamic website. The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler wa
Official Google Maps API Blog: Maps from another world
Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, Geo Team 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 and Google Mars use. Until now, that is! Fresh out of the oven, Maps API v2.95 includes ex
Official Google Maps API Blog: Introducing... the GoogleBar!
Posted by Mike Perrow, Maps API Team 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 to make it really easy for developers to add
Official Google Maps API Blog: KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
Posted by Nigel Tao, Software Engineer, Google Maps Team One of the things I love most about Google Maps and Google Earth is that it's easy for anyone to create and display new geographically referenced content. Whether it's pictures from your vacation, favorite places on the globe, or the hiking trails you like to visit, all you have to do is create a KML file (using Google Earth or any other too
Official Google Maps API Blog: March Marker Madness: GMarkerOptions
Posted by Pamela Fox, Google Maps API Team To celebrate the start of March we've created a "playground" app for you to experiment with GMarkerOptions. As soon as you change one of the options below, the code below the map will update and that code is run, creating a new marker on the map with the changed options. Notice that setting some options will mean we ignore other options - for example, a n
Official Google Maps API Blog: v2.75: GMarker.setImage and a Mole-Whack-Tacular Example
Posted by Pamela Fox, Google Maps API Team API v2.75 (2.x) now introduces the setImage method for GMarker, as noted in the forums. In the past, changing the image of a marker usually required creating multiple arrays of markers for each image change and some tricky switching between the arrays. Now changing the image just requires one method call. To show one way you could exploit GMarker.setImage
Official Google Maps API Blog: Japanese Address and Placename Support Added to the Geocoding API
Posted by 徳生健太郎 (Ken Tokusei), Product Manager, Google Maps Japan Maps API 開発コミュニティーの皆様へ Google Maps APIでも、日本の住所や駅名によるジオコーディングがご利用いただけるようになりました。Maps APIを利用したサイトでは、Google マップと同様、ユーザーが入力した住所の緯度経度を割り出し、表示される地図の場所させることができようになりました。実装例はこちらをどうぞ。 尚、日本語での利用が主なサイトでは、JavaScript のソースURL のホスト名をmaps.google.co.jp にすることをお勧めします（.co.jp のドメインを使用することで、地図・写真切り替えモードのボタンも日本語で表示されるようになります）。 それでは、Web of the Year 2006 地図部門
Official Google Maps API Blog: KML on Google Maps
Posted by Nigel Tao, Software Engineer Strictly speaking, it's not part of the Maps API (yet...), but we have previously announced the ability to show simple KML/KMZ files (as made in Google Earth) in Google Maps, so you can show your own stuff on top of Maps without having to learn any Javascript. For example, you can show crop circle locations as markers, and the Tour de France route as polyline
Official Google Maps API Blog: Marker Manager
Doug Ricket & Bo Majewski, Software Engineers, Google Maps With 2.67, we're releasing the new GMarkerManager class. The marker manager is our contribution toward helping users display many points on a map, and while it may not fit every scenario, we hope it will be useful as an "out-of-the-box" ready-made solution. It manages the task of displaying markers relevant to the user's viewport and zoom
Official Google Maps API Blog
Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, KML Product Manager I have good news and bad news. Let's start with the bad. The bad: After 2 years, 6 months, and 14 days of dedicated developer community service, the Official Google Maps API Blog is being retired. That's right... the blog you're reading right now, right here, is no more, starting today. No more news will be posted here. The good: All is not lost!
日本版マップタイル更新について New Map Tiles for Japan!
Posted by 徳生健太郎 (Ken Tokusei), Product Manager, Google Maps Japan Maps API 開発者のみなさまへ 本日、Google マップのタイルを更新しました。フォントの変更や、より日本の地理特徴を生かした描画になっています。これに伴い、今まで日本ではサポートされていなかった「地図+写真」モードもサポートされるようになりました。新宿副都心の様子は、次のようになります 最新版の地図画像を利用するにはMaps API バーション2が必要です。また、日本ではズームレベルが18、19 と増えますが、Maps API での利用はあと数週間で可能になる予定です。 ではここで記念に、スタッフから、短歌を一首: 地図更新 きれいになったし 地図+写真 ビルももみじも くっきり見える Google マップ開発チーム一同 Translation: D
Google Maps API Official Blog: Geocoding at last!
Posted by Bo Majewski, Software Engineer On Sunday night we silently updated the Google Maps API to include geocoding, our #1 most requested feature by developers. It took just 4 hr 32 min 19 sec for curious developers (Mike Williams in this case) to discover it in our new JavaScript files. The Maps API provides two ways to access the geocoder. You can talk to our geocode servers directly via HTTP
Official Google Maps API Blog: Draggable Markers and GTileLayerOverlays
Posted by Rob Schonberger, Software Engineer Revision 2.61 introduces 2 cool new features -- draggable markers and GTileLayerOverlays. Draggable markers We added draggable markers as a hidden feature in revision 2.46, but today they are making their official debut as part of the Maps API. To make a marker draggable, set the marker option draggable to true when you declare it: var marker = new GMar
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