Google Maps Platform: 9月 2012

Fab Friday Done Good

2012年9月28日星期五

It’s Friday again, and on Maps DevRel we’re feeling good. Geo for Good in fact! Today marks the last day of the Geo for Good User Summit hosted by the Google Earth Outreach team. Paul Saxman and I gave a couple of talks there. Frankly, I’m humbled by the quality of projects that were demonstrated there and by the dedication of the participants. If you want to find out more about what happened at the summit and some of the projects that came out of it, join Raleigh Seamster and I for the next Maps Developer Live event on Tuesday at 10am.

Speaking of Maps Developer Live events, on Wednesday Luke Mahe and Justin Chu talked about the current and future state of the Google Places API. Here’s the video

And lastly, over on the Google Data Arts Team, there’s a cool new Chrome Experiment, Cloud Globe that uses WebGL to animate two years of weather patterns over the surface of the Earth. The 3D globe is rendered entirely in the browser. It’s a cool demonstration of what modern browsers can accomplish.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations Team

Google Places Autocomplete Now Includes Queries

2012年9月27日星期四

Place Autocomplete featureGoogle Places APIQuery AutocompleteJavascript Autocomplete Data ServicesQuery Autocomplete

Google Places APIGoogle Maps JS API Places Library

Autocomplete Data Services“powered by Google” logoPaul SaxmanPlaces API Developer Challenge

Map of the Week: Springsteen in the USA

2012年9月26日星期三

Map of the Week: Springsteen in the USA

Why we like it: This is a fun map put together by the The Timoney Group, showing forty years of Bruce Springsteen concerts in the US using our new Heatmap Layer.

As you play the animation, it adds concerts year by year, and displays the tour name below the map. It shows an inset map of the Northeast United States, where he apparently spent most of his time touring, and alongside that it displays the album cover from the tour.

We like they put a scrolling list of concerts at the bottom of the map, and how the heatmap appears to animate as each concert is added. This is a simple, yet engaging site that demonstrates the power of using heatmaps for data visualization.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations

Fab Friday is Flying Over

2012年9月21日星期五

Happy Friday everyone!

Once again, we have a fabulous video to share from Google Developers Live. On Tuesday, Pete Giencke and Ka-Ping Yee from the Google Crisis Response Team stopped by to talk to Paul Saxman about how they implement crisis maps using the Google Maps API. Check out the video here:

You may have heard that NASA began flying the Space Shuttle Endeavor across the country on September 19th. By now it should have landed at LAX. If you want more info on it’s flight, here’s a handy YouTube video of a Google Earth Tour highlighting points along the route. I may have helped out in a small way :-).

Next week’s Maps Developers Live will be Wednesday, September 26th at 4pm Sydney time.

The Google Places API, Present and Future

Luke Mahe talks with the Justin Chu, the Google Places API product lead, about two new features of the API. Tune in to hear about these features from their source, and get a glimpse into where the API is headed.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations Team

Map of the Week: MOCA: Ends of the Earth

2012年9月18日星期二

Map of the Week:MOCA: Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974Why we like it:Ends of the EarthMOCA: Ends of the EarthEnd of the Earth: Land Art to 1974

Powers of TenPowers of TenPosted by Carlos Cuesta, Google Maps API Product Marketing Manager

Fab Friday is Experimental

2012年9月14日星期五

Welcome to another edition of the Fab Friday Post. Today we have a quick update on our Google Developers Live events. Our latest video is up, Experiments in Big Data Visualization. Brendan Kenny and I took a look at using the CanvasLayer Utility Library [link] to visualize shapefiles and KML in the browser. We talked about some of the challenges of using binary XmlHTTPRequests and trying to do polygon triangulation in JavaScript. Take a look:

In particular, we talked about two open source JavaScript libraries we used:

JSTS, a JavaScript port of the Java Topology Suite

and

shp.js for parsing .shp files.

It’s a fun experiment and we hope to launch it soon.

Coming up next Tuesday, we have Pete Giencke and Ka-Ping Lee discussing how they build Google Crisis Response maps like the one used for Hurricane Isaac. Should be a really interesting session.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations Team

Map of the Week: Vote Night

2012年9月12日星期三

Map of the Week: Vote Night

Why we like it: Vote Night shows current projected outcomes for the 2012 US Presidential Election, on a state-by-state basis. The site allows you to make predictions about the outcome of the election by changing the projected results in a given state to see how that would alter the outcome. You can also view historic elections going back to 1932.

The site uses Styled Maps to mute the map background, providing the context of the map but highlighting its own data. The individual states and the District of Columbia are rendered as clickable Polygons, allowing you to change their color (red for Republican, blue for Democrat, gray for undecided). This makes for an easy interface to interact with the map to change the data. There’s also a drop down list you can select from.

You can embed your prediction into your blog or website, or share it via social media.

The site also restricts the zoom levels you can view on the map, so that you don’t get too far away or too close and lose track of what they are looking at. All around a great user experience packed into a deceptively simple package.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations team

Maps Platform

Fab Friday Done Good

Google Places Autocomplete Now Includes Queries

Map of the Week: Springsteen in the USA

Fab Friday is Flying Over

Map of the Week: MOCA: Ends of the Earth

Fab Friday is Experimental

Map of the Week: Vote Night

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