Google Maps is announcing a small update today that makes life a bit easier for developers who want to use the service by adding GeoJSON support to its JavaScript API. GeoJSON is an open-source data ...

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While this is just an alpha release, it is an important step in enabling the integration of Google services in applications that are written in JavaScript. Add As A Trusted Source For Google. Add as a ...

Public transit data, a key piece of the Google Maps experience, will soon find its way into third-party applications as the map-making experts at Google have just added transit to its Maps API. Now ...

In more news of Flash’s impending decline, Google is announcing that it’s “deprecating” the Google Maps API (application programming interface) for Flash. This API previously allowed developers to add ...

Thank you to GEB reader ‘DJ’ for suggesting this idea in the comments of our post on simulating lakes. It turns out that the algorithm for drawing contours given a regular array of altitude data is ...

Google has drastically dropped the price of its Maps applications programming interface in a bid to attract and simplify enterprise use of the system. Companies will ...

That street isn’t actually curved, so why does Google Street View seem to suggest that it is? If you’re one of the many people who has asked that very question, there’s good news awaiting — the tech ...

Google Maps has reportedly gone offline on Friday morning, March 18, according to DownDetector. At that time, several users from various parts of the world experienced an outage that lasted for more ...