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Fab Friday went to I/O
Friday, June 29, 2012
Wow, what an amazing week at Google I/O. First and foremost, I really enjoyed meeting many of you, the developers who continue to build great maps, who push the boundaries of what is possible, and who push us to grow and improve our mapping APIs. I am always pleased and amazed at the work you do.
We’re all heading home, tired from the week. We’ll do a more complete wrap-up next week, but I wanted to give you a brief taste before then.
We had a LOT of Google Maps going on this year, with ten sessions on the Google Maps track, the
Maps for Good
session on the Tech Talk track, and
two
codelabs
. Too many to name them all here, but I wanted to highlight a few that you might have missed. I want to thank all the speakers, the organizers, and the TAs in our codelabs as well.
We also had a bunch of new features launch, including
Symbols and Heatmaps
for data visualization, a number of enhancements to
Styled Maps
, and the heavily requested addition of
public transit
to the Maps API.
The video for every session is being posted to the Google Developer Channel on YouTube, and embedded in the session page on the
Google I/O site
. All sessions for day one are now available, with the remainder to be added over the next few days.
Since it’s my post, I’ll end with
Enterprise Geospatial in the Cloud
with myself and Sean Maday. We published our slides this morning.
On a personal note, I’ll be taking the month of July off. I’ll miss you all while I’m enjoying sunny Italy. Have a great summer!
Posted by
Mano Marks
, Maps Developer Relations team
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