Google Maps API Getting started Coffee, Code and Chocolate. Even the simplest data driven applications today are not only about gathering, understanding and digesting data.
Its also important to decide how you display it in such a manner that the user is able to get the gist in the least amount of time. A great way to do that is display data as graphically as possible – with Charts, Graphs and maps. For displaying maps there are quite a few APIs available – Google Maps, Yahoo maps and Bing maps. I have been playing around with the Google Maps API for the last few days and found it an amazingly simple way to display geographical data in your application. You Publish.