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Maps for mobile. Discover new experiences across the world or around the corner Explore your worldWith the redesigned Explore tab, find places to eat and things to do around you or when you travel See places you match withThe Your Match score shows you how well a place matches your tastes and preferences Just for youSee recommendations for new and trending places based on your interests Create listsEasily create lists of places you want to go, and add notes to the places you’ve saved. You can keep these lists private, share them with close friends, or share them publicly. You can also browse through lists created by publishers, Local Guides or Google Make your plans happen by connecting with the places you’re interested in Follow your favoritesStay on top of offers, updates and more when you follow your favorite businesses Book aheadMake a reservation, book an appointment, or get tickets with just a few taps Learn more Control your data with confidence Mountain View, California Read more Sign up.

The Google Maps API's Top 10 Under-the-Radar Enhancements. The Google Maps API has been around since June 2005, helping developers build location-based applications. With new features added all of the time, some very useful extensions can get overlooked. In this article, I offer 10 unheralded Google Maps API tips and tricks that can help you enhance your location-based applications in exciting new ways. 1.

Create Heat Maps Heat Maps offer a highly intuitive way to represent information density according to color. If you're in search of a readily available HeatMap implementation solution that plugs directly into your application maps, look no further than HeatMapAPI. HeatMapAPI is a commercial service, but it does allow users to map up to 100 points per API call with a maximum limit of 500 calls per day. 2. The Google Maps JavaScript API V3 consists of a highly optimized JavaScript library intended for use on mobile devices, with particular emphasis on Android- and iPhone-based devices. 3. 4.

Adding the GoogleBar to your map is shockingly easy. KML Support - KML - Google Code. Android Devices - Google Mobile Help. Can I upload Google Earth or Google Maps points to Google Mobile Maps? - Google Mobile Help. Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps | In usability we trust. To use markers in Google Maps is fairly trivial, at least when you have a reasonable amount of them. But once you have more than a few hundred of them, performance quickly starts to degrade. In this article I will show you a few approaches to speed up performance. I’ve also put together a test page to compare them.

Update [2009-05-06]:This article has been updated with the addition of the utility library MarkerClusterer. If you’re new to markers in Google Maps I recommend that you first read Basic operations with markers in Google Maps for an introduction on how to use them. The Marker Manager – Keeps track of them Your first option might be to use the MarkerManager since it’s an utility library provided by Google. The MarkerManager is initially a bit slower than just adding markers directly to the map but the added benefit is that you can have more control over them. You add markers to the MarkerManager with addMarker(GMarker, minZoom, maxZoom?). A simple example Bulk adding the markers. CommunityWalk - make your own map, build interactive maps, create a map with photos, videos, more.

Map multiple locations by address from spreadsheets | BatchGeo. Alternative to paging on My Maps - GMaps TIPS. Maps not uploading all points in kml file - Maps Help. First, you should know that Google Maps and Google earth have different capabilities for displaying kml files. Google Earth has almost no limitations, you can author full mxd's to google earth with legends and everything, google maps, however, does not have nearly the same capability.

In google maps you are restricted to displaying 200 kml points on one page, this is because this application is server based and created using javascript, for performance purposes, you are limited to only 200 kml points per page. You might notice that the rest of your points are on different pages, unfortunatly you cannot view them all at the same time. One thing that you can do, Is serve up a url to your kml file (you can do this easily if you have an ftp account or with google my pages), then just enter the url into the search box, presto!

Hope this helps. How to Geo-Tag your Photographs with Google Maps. oMaps : Offline maps for iPhone. Using My Maps custom map w/markers in iPhone - Google Mobile Help.