Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Google Maps API Released

[Robert L. <rob...@us...>]

Bill Crooke wrote:

> I just saw on /. that google released the API for maps.google.com.
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/

[ drops jaw ] 

Wow.   This is _slick_.   


Having struggled with online mapping products from Tiger (too ugly, too
unreliable, static images, etc.) and a variety of providers like Expedia
that don't _really_ want you to use the maps for your own purposes, I
have to say I'm totally aroused by this!

The terms of use are quite reasonable for my needs.

I can easily see hooking things like http://www.mtgc.org/lcc/ (a poster
child for ugly tiger maps) up to this.  I'd bet I can hook that up to
their 'XML and Asynchronous RPC' example and get it to read the gpx
files I'm already hocking up as an internal work product.

Thanx for highlighting this.


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