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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44 Responses to “Google Maps API”

  1. al says:
    July 11, 2005 at 9:11 am

    uh . . . map doesn’t work dude

  2. Sarah says:
    July 11, 2005 at 9:28 am

    There is a way to track your route:
    http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/?centerX=-71.53975009918213&centerY=43.20811618721937&zl=2&polyline=mqufGb%7DssL%7BFfByEkOq@lA

  3. BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Google Maps - Katrina says:
    September 6, 2005 at 11:57 pm

    [...] For more information on the devastating Hurricane Katrina, head on over to Wikipedia. For more information on Google Maps, I’d suggest heading over to MaisonBisson.com and NoSheep!. Oh, and google also did some satellite imagery of the Moon Landing Site. Check out NoSheep! for more information on that. (note, with google moon, zoom all the way in) [...]

  4. BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Google Services says:
    September 8, 2005 at 2:09 pm

    [...] Google Maps Google Maps vs. MapQuest…Google wins hands down. Not only is this product able to generate efficient directions, but you can view maps using the standard road maps, using satellite imagery, or a hybrid of the two! This is a very sweet product that has been blogged about by many so won’t elaborate too much more on this product…but I would suggest heading over to MaisonBisson.com and NoSheep!. [...]

  5. Bill McCoy says:
    September 16, 2005 at 9:23 pm

    Hey if you like Google Maps your gonna love thos free google software, You can actually view every point on the planet using satelite images. Download it, its worth your time!

    http://earth.google.com/

  6. zbtirrell says:
    September 17, 2005 at 8:48 am

    Yeah, my Update 3 refers to Google Earth. I wrote up a quick thing about how you can get Katrina overlay maps to see New Orleans underwater.

  7. carl e gregory says:
    October 3, 2005 at 12:01 pm

    i need to locate the maps of schuylkill county pennsylvania,also the maps of the townships of both barry plus eldred,also in the state of pennsylvania.im tring to see whats on 878 akers of land that used to be the beury anthracite coal company of shamokin pennsylvania.

  8. m. velsamy says:
    October 23, 2005 at 2:01 pm

    need to see your maps

  9. masoud says:
    October 27, 2005 at 8:26 am

    hi im very glad to meet your site.
    please send for me irans map
    thank you.
    Masoud.

  10. saravanan says:
    October 29, 2005 at 1:24 am

    pl india map

  11. saravanan says:
    October 29, 2005 at 1:27 am

    pl view particular image

  12. Patti Spencer says:
    November 9, 2005 at 9:13 pm

    looking for my home from satilite

  13. NoSheep! » Google Maps API: Risk says:
    November 12, 2005 at 1:09 pm

    [...] Mike D recently pointed me at GMRisk by TehDiplomat. This interesting use of the Google Maps API created a fully playable version of the game of Risk played on top of the satellite view of the world provided by Google’s Maps. [...]

  14. glass says:
    November 25, 2005 at 8:24 pm

    map of world

  15. nick v/d w says:
    December 25, 2005 at 2:44 am

    Looking for home from satilite

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    January 11, 2006 at 7:56 am

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  17. Sellingnovy says:
    February 12, 2006 at 3:34 pm

    Someone sent me a satellite view of the Riou Lake
    of Saskatchewan…

    I was wondering if someone else could send me one…

    Maybe there is a person outhere working from Mines and Development?

    Thank you

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  19. ahmad says:
    March 27, 2006 at 12:24 pm

    i want to know about this maps in this web

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    March 29, 2006 at 8:21 am

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    March 29, 2006 at 8:22 am

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    April 1, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    Hi, I learnt about ur website. I shall be thankful if u please send me map of Pakistan on my mail address.

    Thanks and bye

    Ashfaq Ahmed-KSA

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    April 20, 2006 at 5:13 am

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    April 23, 2006 at 2:45 am

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  25. mateen says:
    May 4, 2006 at 10:21 am

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  26. Abdurezak says:
    July 6, 2006 at 9:58 am

    Dear sir/ Madam

    i would like to see my city with radias of 10 kilomiter from this coordinate.

    Northing N 09.35028

    Easting E 042.79888

    Elevation 1635

  27. gandhi says:
    July 28, 2006 at 7:41 am

    Amazing things u gave in hands of masses

  28. zbtirrell says:
    July 28, 2006 at 8:19 am

    certainly that is the most significant thing about the Google Maps API. Suddenly a tool that may have cost a pile of money to have and use, but is free for creative minds to build applications on top of. In many ways this is the power of any Web 2.0 application.

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    August 24, 2006 at 12:47 am

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    i want ragister with your sight beacuse i want to se whare iwant go for business and where we coudnot go any way they place we se in some movies only so please guide me thanking you

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    November 27, 2006 at 11:17 am

    please sent googleearth software fast

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    February 27, 2007 at 5:53 am

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