nearby.org.uk blog » gdd07 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog GIS, maps, mapping, geo, UK, Geograph, PHP, Perl and more Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:59:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 GoogleDevelDay: part 2 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2007/05/31/googledevelday-part-2/ http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2007/05/31/googledevelday-part-2/#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 15:45:34 +0000 Barry http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2007/05/31/googledevelday-part-2/ Have how been to the two ‘Geo’ sessions, nothing new to report I don’t think that can’t be got from gearthblog.com and the Google Maps API Group (where I had already heard of these), but anyway a quick round up of the main announcements (in no particular order)

  • Maps API – Can now do Directions :) – don’t yet know how flexible the API is tho, or if it even supports UK
  • Maps API – hint that the Geocoder might work (or soon) in the UK, but this could just be the questionee doesnt know yet.
  • Google Maps – Mapplets – porting a mashup to Google Maps
  • Google Earth – New KML 2.2 – as far as I gather its the KML spec only, the viewer is not released yet – but will check.
    • Support for Photo Placemarks – of particular interest to Geograph – tried something like this with models but never got it nice enough to release.
    • Add ‘atom’esque, link and author tags to Placemark
    • Update: just found the Camera tag, YAY!
    • http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tags_beta1.html

    More as I find it out (I think I am missing some anyway…), I’ll also verify the facts and flesh out the features with links to more information.

    Update: forgot to mention Ed Parsons also used the Geograph Mapplet demo in his Keynote speech this morning. (see previous posts)

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    oh… and jusw saw in the comments that the mapplet just posted was used in Google’s talk at Where2.0 ;)

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