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, [...]

Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8038

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