Google Maps API

// July 10th, 2005 // Technology Bits

Casey turned me on to the Google Maps API and I’ve been looking for an excuse to play.

On Friday I went to UNH in the morning, back to Plymouth late in the day, and then drove up to Waterville, ME that night. Basically 7.5 hours of driving. I was curious how far apart these points would look when plotted on a map. Check it out below:

I would really like if they had a feature in the API allowing me to draw lines along the route I took. Maybe version 2.

The other mildly annoying thing about the API is having no really easy way to get longitude and latitude points when you need them. I ended up writing a little alert(point.x); alert(point.y); on points I was setting on click (based off a simple mod to an example. The other solution is to use something like geocoder.us

As for Casey’s annoyance about the specifics of the license key to a directory, I just registered a key generically for nosheep.net, assuming I could use it anywhere, simple solution. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out, couldn’t put API pages in any subfolders… So, iframe solution for me as well.

Update: It turns out this isn’t working in IE. I guess I need to fix that… On a lighter note Safari loves it!

Update 2: A-ha! I had a line break in my key code and apparently IE couldn’t handle that… fixed now, good to go as best I can tell.

Update 3: I’ve been getting a lot of incoming traffic looking for Google Earth, for more actually about that, Google Earth, an Eye on Katrina

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