Beginning Google Maps Applications

Andre Lewis has been hard at work since September 2006 translating and rewriting the PHP-centric edition of our Beginning Google Maps Applications book into Ruby on RAILS — and we’re giving away 3 4 copies over the next 3 weeks!
If you’re interested in entering the contest please simply visit http://googlemapsbook.com/contest and fill out the form. […]

Andre Lewis has been hard at work writing our new sister book Beginning Google Maps with RAILS and Ajax. It’s due back from the printers in about a week, so on the eve of its release he has also released GeoKit for Rails along with Bill Eisenhauer. Bill also has a few examples on his […]

The API team has just announced the existence of a new API feature (since 2.69): The GPolygon.
Needless to say this is a feature we’ve been expecting for a while. A transparent, filled, polygon is something that many people have been trying to do for a while now, none of which were more than polyline or […]

Linux world has a roundup of the top 10 most useful, interesting and important Web 2.0 APIs that you can use for “real programming problems” in Web applications. At the top of their list is the Google Maps API, winning the #1 most important and influential API award.
I know many of you already agree with […]

ZDNet is reporting that Google has updated the terms of use for their API to explicitly mention the geocoding API. ZDNet is wrong in stating that this is a new restriction since it’s been in place since the very first day the geocoding API was released.
The “new” restriction centers around the 50,000 lookups per day […]