All hail the new GGeoXml class, just introduced into the Google Maps API! Now you can easily (usually 1 or 2 lines!) add content that you have in KML/Z or GeoRSS to a Google Map in your API page.
This is the same functionality that has been on the main Maps site (well the GeoRSS support is new!) for a while: nice for this to migrate to the API.
TIP: to try it don’t forget to use &v=2.x in your api loader to get the latest version that includes the GGeoXml.
To celebrate here is a Geograph Demo – following some testing will make it an official feature.
This is nice – we should write some more detailed tutorials on this stuff – our search provides georss, I’d like to see people doing something interesting with it!
Well it turns out that KMZ doesnt seem to work (yet?) via the API based GGeoXml. They do via maps.google.com tho.
Paul: Yes, we have quite an extensive API and collection of feeds and formats. It would be good to see it used more. One thing wondering is if we could provide a flickr compatiable API – that way many mashups built for flickr could be ported easily! (would have to check the legal implications tho – why dont other photo sharing sites do it…)