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A new StreetView-like service for Central Europe

January 24, 2009

As reported by Google Maps Mania, Norc has just launched a StreetView-like service for a handful of countries in Europe.  They use the Google Maps API to power their product, then drop in a bunch of interactive panoramic images.  You can’t move up up down streets quite as easily, but they provide small arrows in [...]

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StreetView now included in the Google Maps API

March 27, 2008

Google has just announced that they have added StreetView to the Google Maps API!  It sounds like there are some neat things that can be done with it, and I’m anxious to give it a try. The post at the Google Maps API Blog has much more information — go check it out.  If you [...]

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New version of Google Earth Enterprise

July 26, 2007

As reported on the Google LatLong blog, a new version of Google Earth Enterprise has been released. Some of the enhancements include: Browser integration with the Google Maps API AJAX architecture, allowing 2D map views to be embedded in any web-based application, so everyone in an organization benefits from the power of Google Earth Enterprise. [...]

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A few new tips on using the Virtual Earth API

July 20, 2007

A couple new API tips were posted today on some Virtual Earth related blogs. First, the Virtual Earth / Live Maps Blog explains how to display their slick new hill shaded tiles using the VE API.  I’ve already mentioned how good looking I thought these tiles are, so it’s nice to see an easy way [...]

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Some confusion about the new AdSense feature using the Google Maps API

June 5, 2007

As I mentioned yesterday, you’ll soon be able to monetize Google Maps using built-in support for AdSense.  It’s quite slick.  However, I’ve noticed a number of blogs talking about an article about this on InfoWorld today, all of whom have a couple of key facts wrong. First, InfoWorld says that mapplets can be monetized using [...]

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Some other tidbits about Google Maps from last week.

June 3, 2007

Mike Pegg at Google Maps Mania just posted a short summary of new features in the Google Maps API that were revealed at the Google Developer Day last week.  There are a number of items in there, but the main one I missed was the ability to add live traffic data to your API map.  [...]

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