Google Maps API

July 10, 2005

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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65 Responses to “Google Maps API”

  1. al on July 11th, 2005 9:11 am

    uh . . . map doesn’t work dude

  2. Sarah on July 11th, 2005 9:28 am
  3. BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Google Maps - Katrina on September 6th, 2005 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 on September 8th, 2005 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 on September 16th, 2005 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 on September 17th, 2005 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 on October 3rd, 2005 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.

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  12. Patti Spencer on November 9th, 2005 9:13 pm

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  13. NoSheep! » Google Maps API: Risk on November 12th, 2005 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. [...]

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  28. zbtirrell on July 28th, 2006 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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