Google Opens Geographic Search Interface
News The company has opened up outside access to its Geo Search API (application programming interface), said John Hanke, head of Google Earth and Google Maps, at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California on Tuesday.
[May 14, 2008, 14:08]
Google Maps Hacks: Make Things Happen When The Map Moves
White Papers Fortunately, the Google Maps API offers a way to make this happen automatically. Balancing what to show and what not to show on a Google Map can be tricky. On one hand, for performance reasons, one wants to restrict the overlays displayed on the...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
Google Releases Customisation APIs
News The Google Homepage API page has information and software that developers can use to create modules, or "widgets", that people can then use to spice up their personalised home pages on Google. With the Google Homepage API, developers can now create...
[December 15, 2005, 8:45]
Google: A Trailblazer For Web Services?
News Current uses of the Google Web API include a tool that can, among other things, search the company's database through instant messenger or send results of a search via email. It is this wave of interest in Google's API that might finally spark...
[May 7, 2002, 12:32]
Yahoo Opens Panama Search Ad Platform
News Through its new Yahoo Search Marketing Commercial API Program, both businesses and individual developers have access to a series of application program interfaces (APIs) so that they can tweak the Panama platform to suit their individual needs.
[June 5, 2007, 8:57]
Google Docs Gets Gadgets
News If I'm collecting census data and putting it into a spreadsheet, I can also make that data available to statisticians," through the Visualization API, said Rochelle. These include gadgets to display data on a pie chart, map, time chart, funnel...
[March 20, 2008, 12:51]
Google Fosters Ties With Developers
News Meanwhile, the Google Gadgets API lets third parties build mini-applications that reside within — and enhance — the Google home page or Google Desktop. For example, Google Maps is a popular component for building completely new applications that...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Ordnance Survey Opens Map Source Code
News The data will be available in different mapping scales and cover the whole of Great Britain and promises to be more detailed than that included in other map mashups such as Google Maps. Steve Coast, founder of open source mapping group...
[December 17, 2007, 8:13]
Microsoft Brings Virtual Earth To The UK
News UK developers can take the core hosted service and build solutions on top, or embed a mapping capability into their own Web pages using an API (application programming interface). Remote users can see and interact with the same map in a chat session.
[May 24, 2006, 13:00]
Ordnance Survey Challenges Google
News The JavaScript application programming interface (API) will give individuals access to the OS' mapping data and allow them to develop applications with style features such as the click-and-drag "slippy" map, markers and bubbles.
[November 3, 2006, 9:19]
