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A slew of cool innovations have been unleashed when Google opened<\/a> its Google Maps API<\/a> to the public.<\/p>\n Some useful hacks of the Google Maps here:<\/p>\n On a related note, Yahoo Maps apparently also launched its Maps API<\/a>. Amazon.com<\/a>‘s very own search engine, A9<\/a>, also launched its A9 Maps Beta<\/a>. A9 Maps has a few new tricks not available in Google Maps or Yahoo Maps, which is not a big surprise since A9’s search page also sports a few innovations not available in its rivals’ sites. Too bad some of the features are not available to Mac users (or that they simply crash Safari!).<\/p>\n The race to dominate the online mapping service is on. I wonder where Microsoft is in all this mess… <\/p>\n Another cool app that Google launched was Google Earth<\/a>. It’s a standalone application that displays almost any location in 3D. But it’s only available on Windows. \ud83d\ude41 It’s based on an application developed by Keyhole (Google cache<\/a>), which was bought out by Google<\/a> not too long ago.<\/p>\n Here’s a guide<\/a> to Google Maps Hacking for reference. Another link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong> Someone’s obsession over Google Earth: Google Sightseeing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A slew of cool innovations have been unleashed when Google opened its Google Maps API to the public. Some useful hacks of the Google Maps here: Housing Maps (posted previously) Iraq War Casualties Map Google Weather Map Chicago Crime Map (kinda scary) Google Maps plugin for Mac OSX Camp Ground Finder map (only covers Oregon … Continue reading “The War of the Maps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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