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Fab Friday is Eventful

Friday, April 27, 2012

It’s Fab Friday again! This week, we’ve got another Google Maps API Developer Relations screencast. This week, Andres Ferrate discusses the Google Places API Events feature:

In other video news, Tuesday during Maps API Office Hours, I had a conversation with Paul Rademacher, author of the first Google Maps API site, HousingMaps about the origins of the API, and his latest project, Stratocam, which lets users view and share beautiful satellite and aerial imagery. If you want to watch or join future office hours events, follow our Google+ page.

In upcoming events, I will be at Wherecamp.eu in Amsterdam on Saturday the 28th. By the time you read this, I may already be there! Andres will be at the Oregon Central Coast Web-Mapping and Geo-Enabled Tools Meeting May 16th and Brendan Kenny will be at TXJS June 14th. And of course the whole team will be at Google I/O at the end of June.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations Team

Map of the Week: The Civic Crowd

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Map of the Week:The Civic CrowdWhy we like it:The Civic Crowd

The Civic Crowd

The Civic CrowdPosted by Carlos Cuesta, Google Maps API Product Marketing Manager

Update to the Google Maps API deprecation policy and Terms of Service

Friday, April 20, 2012

Google Developers Blog todayGoogle Maps/Google Earth API Terms of Service

There are certain Maps API Services, such as Places and Street View, which you are permitted to use without a Google Map. This update clarifies that if you do choose to use a map with these services it must be a Google Map.

This update clarifies that business, residential address, or telephone directory listings services may continue to use the Maps API, but may not use business listings content provided by the Maps API or the Places API.

This update clarifies that you are not permitted to use or provide any content provided by the Maps API in an API that you offer to others, even if your implementation provides substantial additional features or content.

This update adds additional terms to protect the privacy of geolocation data and requires that you obtain the consent of your users to geolocate their position and notify them of how that information will be used.

Maps API forumsPosted by Thor Mitchell, Product Manager, Google Maps API

Map of the Week: Map of the Dead

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Map of the Week: Map of the DeadWhy we like it:Google Places APIAnti-Zombie FortressMap of the DeadHTML5 GeolocationGoogle Places Autocomplete APIStyled MapsGoogle Places APIDoejoPosted by Carlos Cuesta, Google Maps API Product Marketing Manager

Visualize U.S. demographics using Google Maps API for Business

Monday, April 16, 2012

Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise BlogDemographics LayerNielsen

population

age

race

marital status

housing status

documentationthis formPosted by Thor Mitchell, Product Manager, Google Maps API

Fab Friday: Context is Everything

Friday, April 13, 2012

It’s been a few weeks since I wrote a Fab Friday post, so I thought I’d do a round-up of some of what’s happened around here the past few weeks and what’s going on in the next few weeks.Last week was O’Reilly’s Where Conference, a big event for the geospatial industry. Formerly called Where 2.0, this year they dropped the 2.0 moniker, so O’Reilly was just Where it’s at. OK, enough of the bad puns. Google had a big presence there, as you can see from the line-up of Google sessions, we delivered a lot of content. We’ll release some of the slides and demos in the near future, nothing to announce on that front yet. But take a look at the Mercedes-Benz we had in the booth!Next week, Brendan Kenny and Josh Livni are going to be at EcoHack in NYC to help hack away on great projects that are helping the planet. In particular, they’ll be helping out anyone wanting to use Google Maps in their projects.I’ll be at WhereCamp EU April 28th and 29th in Amsterdam. I haven’t been to Amsterdam since I was 13, which was a loooong time ago. So I’m looking forward to it. If you’re anywhere near Amsterdam, check out the conference, it should be a lot of fun.Now on to context. I stumbled on this fun little open source library for adding context menus to a Google Maps API application. Here’s a sample of what that looks like:Posted by Mano Marks, team

Build better maps with Analytics for Google Maps API for Business

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise BlogGoogle Maps API for Business:Google Enterprise Support PortalMaps API for Business Developer GuideGoogle Enterprise Support teamPosted by Daniel Schramm, Associate Product Manager Intern, Google Maps API

Map of the Week: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG with Google Maps API

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Map of the Week:Why we like it:Styled MapsGoogle Places APIPlaces Autocomplete APItraffic layerPanoramio layer

(Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing Coupe at the O’Reilly Where Conference - April 2012)Styled Maps

2012 O’Reilly Where Conference

great implementationsPosted by Carlos Cuesta, Google Maps API Product Marketing Manager

Weather Layer now available in the Google Maps API

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Please note that the weather layer is no longer available in the Google Maps JavaScript API. For more information, see the blog post on sunsetting the Weather and Panoramio libraries.launched on Google MapsU.S. Naval Research Labweather.comweatherWeatherLayerCloudLayerWeatherLayermaps.google.comCloudLayerdocumentationgoogle-maps-api-3Joey Scarr, Google Maps API team

Maps Platform

Fab Friday is Eventful

Map of the Week: The Civic Crowd

Update to the Google Maps API deprecation policy and Terms of Service

Map of the Week: Map of the Dead

Visualize U.S. demographics using Google Maps API for Business

Fab Friday: Context is Everything

Build better maps with Analytics for Google Maps API for Business

Map of the Week: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG with Google Maps API

Weather Layer now available in the Google Maps API

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