Google Geo Developers Blog: Quick And Simple Street View With The Google Street View Image Api

The Google Maps API family includes the Google Static Maps API, which delivers maps as fixed images in PNG, GIF, or JPG format. It’s great when you want to quickly add a map to a page without writing a JavaScript application, when you need maps on a device with no JavaScript support, or for generating lightweight thumbnail maps or maps for printing. In fact we’re so delighted with the popularity of the Static Maps API that today we’re launching an accompanying service for Street View imagery.

The Google Street View Image API brings the simplicity of the Static Maps API to Street View, providing a way to add a Street View image or thumbnail to any application without the need for JavaScript. Simply construct a URL in accordance with the documentation, and the API returns the corresponding Street View panorama as an image in JPG format:



You can use the Street View Image API in both web based and mobile apps, and the size limits and daily quotas match those of the Static Maps API for both the consumer Maps API and Maps API Premier. You can display Street View images in your apps using this API without a corresponding Google map, but if you do choose to display a map it must be provided by Google. For more details on how to use the Street View Image API please refer to the documentation.

To make it easier to find help using the Street View Image API and Static Maps API, we’re also launching a new forum today dedicated to these services. If you have any questions regarding use of these APIs going forward we recommend you head over to the new Google Maps Image APIs group. We look forward to seeing you there!

Posted by Thor Mitchell, Product Manager, Google Maps API

Google Geo Developers Blog: Quick and simple Street View with the Google Street View Image API

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Foursquare Adds Five New Languages To App, Big Focus On API This Year

In an on-stage announcement at Mobile World Congress, Foursquare founder and CEO Denis Crowley said the location-based startup had added five new languages to its mobile application. These are Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. He said the new app (2.2.5) will be available on versions for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android today. The analytics platform remains oriented towards the US, but Crowley said they were looking at further internationalisation. He added that they would be focusing on the API this year.

Foursquare Adds Five New Languages To App, Big Focus On API This Year

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Google Product API Now Available For Google Affiliate Network Publishers

Google today announced that Google Affiliate Network publishers can now take advantage of a new Google product API -- a simple yet powerful programmatic interface -- to make it easier to access and integrate product data from Google Affiliate Network advertisers.

Google Product API Now Available For Google Affiliate Network Publishers

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Esri Releases ArcGIS API for Win Mobile

From Esri, the ArcGIS API for Win Mobile is now available at no cost to developers from the ArcGIS Resource Center – this includes a detailed blog, forum, samples, and support. According to the official announcement, already familiar with Silverlight will be able to create new applications for Windows Phone without a steep [...]

Esri Releases ArcGIS API for Win Mobile

Backlink: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8245

Ubisense myWorld Using Google Maps API Premier to Extend the Rich of GIS Data

Peter Batty from Ubisense updates tells us about how their product, "myWorld" is using Google Maps API Premier to make sense of complicated GIS data. "myWorld is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that brings the ease of use and performance of Google Maps to the challenge of presenting these complex network maps in a way which's simple to use. myWorld uses Google Maps JavaScript API V3 with Google Maps API Premier."

Ubisense myWorld Using Google Maps API Premier to Extend the Rich of GIS Data

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Is it possible with the Foursquare API to fetch usernames of people checked in at a venue that are not your friends?

Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.

Harry Heymann, I'm the Engineering Lead at foursquare.com

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Google Maps Data API being deprecated (Jan 31/11) in favor of Fusion Tables Cloud Solution

This via the Google Geo Dev Blog (http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com) as the company announces to nix the Maps Data API after Jan 31, 2011. Recall that as of several months agao, Google Maps API v3 renders data stored in Fusion Tables, a Google Research project for storing large structured data sets in the cloud… as a result, [...]

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Friday Geonews: Google Maps Data API Deprecated, Nicaragua Raid Using Google Maps, Russia LULC with 12,000 L5 Scenes, and more

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.

On the Google front:

• The Maps Data API is being deprecated, replaced by Fusion Tables in the Maps API v3
• In addition to the Maps API for Flash, Styled Maps launched for the Static Maps API
• There was an imagery update this week for Google Maps and Earth
• Google also previewed StreetView imagery for Germany
• There's an official Panoramio Photo Contest

On the FOSS4G front:

• The next version of QGIS will feature raster masks, explained in this entry
• GeoServer gets a new file chooser

In the miscellaneous category:

• Slashdot started a discussion today named Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps
• The GEB details Breadcrumbs, a software to visualize your GPS tracks in 3D
• The Russians are serious mapping land use land cover, with 12,000 Landsat-5 scenes acquired in 2010
• TMR shares a review of the DeLorme GPS/Communicator Combo
• DigitalGlobe is reporting is third consecutive down quarter
• Everyblock released their API

In the maps category:

• A quick look at this map with a reversed Mercator effect for Africa and Greenland makes obvious how maps projections can be misleading, especially the omnipresent Mercator projection

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/05/Friday-Geonews-Google-Maps-Data-API-Deprecated-Nicaragua-Raid-Using-Google-Maps-Russia-LU

SCVNGR Goes Global and Becomes the First Service to Use Google's Places API

SCVNGR is a location-based service with apps for the iPhone and Android that wants to add a "game layer on top of the world." Starting today, the company is getting closer to this goal, as it is going international and expanding to about 80 new countries. Until today, SCVNGR was only available in the U.S.

SCVNGR is also switching away from its own proprietary location database. Thanks to its close relationship with Google (SCVNGR is, in part, funded by Google Ventures), the service is the first site to leverage the new Google Places API.

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As the company's founder and "Chief Ninja" Seth Priebatsch told us yesterday, switching to the Google Places API allowed SCVNGR to quickly scale globally, as it can now rely on Google's extensive location database to power its service. SCVNGR users will now also be able to create challenges and treks - the central gaming elements on the service - at all of these locations. As we noted when Google first announced it, the Places API "could do for check-ins what Google Maps did for maps." As Priebatsch told us, the fact that Google gave his company access to this comprehensive global database with millions of locations made switching to it a no-brainer.

While SCVNGR plans to launch localized versions of its apps in the future, the interface is currently only available in English. Users can create challenges using their own languages, however.

The service, which launched just 20 weeks ago, currently has about half a million users, though it's not clear how many of these are active users. Priebatsch also told us that the company has managed to double the number of enterprise clients since its official launch to over 1000. SCVNGR clearly has a lot of momentum going for it right now and it will be interesting to see how the service develops now that it is going global.

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Post originale: http://jkdodd.soup.io/post/85464714/SCVNGR-Goes-Global-and-Becomes-the-First

Everyblock Launches Hyperlocal News Firehose API

Hyperlocal news aggregator Everyblock announced today that it is releasing a firehose API to integrate its data into large partner sites. Everyblock brings together real time and near real-time public records like 911 calls, restaurant health inspections and building permits, as well as news stories and blog posts that discuss user-designated areas in 16 cities around the US. That stream of data will now be available upon request to integrate into the sites of other large publishers and otherwise make use of.

Everyblock was acquired by MSNBC in 2009 and came to my city of Portland, Oregon this Spring. Things haven't been the same since. Give me a Sunday morning and Everyblock on my iPad and I'm a happy guy.

Sponsor

In its announcement today the company emphasized that it offers a customizable lightweight widget, which it says will be most appropriate for most people. The new API is suitable for "partners with heavy-duty needs and who can devote a goodly amount of development time to work with the data."

Competitor Outside.in released the 2.0 version of its API this Summer. Fwix is another hyperlocal news aggregator with an API to check out.

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Cashie Rings Up PayPal API To Offer Checkout Platform For Publishers

There are plenty of checkout and shopping cart solutions on the web; including Payvment, BigCommerce and others. Cashie is launching today as a cloud-based e-commerce platform that can be easily installed on a website or blog. Cashie is designed for publishers using content management platforms such as Wordpress, and can be integrated into a site by copying and pasting a few lines of code. The technology leverages PayPal's X Developer Platform to allow users (who need to have a PayPal Website Payments Pro merchant account) to offer a PayPal and standard credit card checkout experience.

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Friday Geonews: ArcGIS API for Android Coming, Safe and Bentley News, ProtectedPlanet.net, and more

Here's the Friday geonews in batch mode, or more precisely, the geonews that were not already shared earlier this week.

On the ESRI front:

• After ArcGIS API for iOS, it's not surprising to learn about ArcGIS For Android And ArcGIS API For Android Coming Soon
• V1 reviews Michael Zeiler's new book named "Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Concepts"

In the miscellaneous category:

• Bing Maps is now a component of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
• V1 sums up various news regarding Bentley (think Microstation) products
• Here's a Safe Software User Meeting Recap
• In the U.S., there's a new National TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) Database
• APB has an entry on Garmin's attempt to monetize geocaching

In the map category:

• Here's a map of U.S. foreign military bases
• TMR has an entry on the true size of Africa, since most of us are often mislead by the Mercator projection
• Here's an entry on ProtectedPlanet.net, mapping 150,000 of the world's protected areas
• Like in some other countries, you will need to register to do mapping activities in Pakistan

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Slashgeo: Friday Geonews: ArcGIS API for Android Coming, Safe and Bentley News, ProtectedPlanet.net, and more

Here's the Friday geonews in batch mode, or more precisely, the geonews that were not already shared earlier this week.

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