We are getting a great demonstration right now of open source power, as applications using the Google Maps API begin to appear. It's Google, using the open source process, that has blown the field ...

I don't think a day goes by that I don't use Google to find something, and lately, I've seen an increasing number of businesses that post Google maps to their locations on their Web sites. Sometimes, ...

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 ...

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced a new Maps API for mobile developers, updates to Maps for Android and iOS and a completely refreshed Google Maps experience on the desktop.

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 ...

Google announces the Google Maps Engine API, allowing developers to bring the power of Maps Engine into their own applications. With a single map, an organization can locate underground pipelines, ...

During the past few months, we have looked at a number of Web services. Web services is a catch-all phrase for the ways in which Internet companies are making their data available to the general ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Geocoding is the process of mapping an address or a location name to a point on ...

Google has released three Google Maps application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to map solar potential, air quality and pollen levels. The three APIs apply artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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