Google has just released their new version of their Google Maps Flash API, the big feature in this is their 3D map view perspective. This allows the map to be controlled similar to what is found in Google Earth, but with simple tiled maps, rather than complex terrain.
More info and demos can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/3d-maps.html
Here are the visualisations of the Google crawler on the ZoomIn site on the 21/7/09.
I’ve made 3 videos, one of NZ , Wellington and Auckland.
Its interesting Google actually indexes harder the more traffic we get !
Here at ProjectX Technology we are quite excited to see that Google are working on a new version of their Mapping API.
Version 3 is still in it’s early days in Google Labs, however it is already showing exciting features and improvements, as well as a much better code structure.
I recently built a quick demo of the capabilities of it’s new Geocoding system, to show the improvements on the data being returned. It’s exciting to point out that Google has now listed this as an official demo for Version 3 of their API.
Although there is still a wee way before this API is ready for serious use, it should be a good step forward when it’s ready.
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