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Geo Developers at Google I/O 2011
July 5, 2011
If last year’s Google I/O was about the maturation of many of the Geo APIs, this year’s was more about their sophistication, both in the designs discussed and the applications on display. Like the sun standing still at the solstice, let’s take a moment to reflect on recent events and look ahead to the coming season.
Several new features made their debut at I/O this year. The much-anticipated
Places API
took the stage, as did its companion the
Places Autocomplete API
.
Dynamic Styling
was introduced for Fusion Tables layers in the Maps API, allowing layer styling to be defined by the API application via Javascript. Finally, some extremely helpful open source Javascript libraries were introduced to make Maps API development even easier.
Joining us on stage were several developers who came to share their expertise. Justin O'Beirne of 41Latitude talked about map usability and design in the “
Designing Maps Applications for Usability
” session.
The Guardian UK
’s Simon Rogers joined us to talk about how the Guardian is using Fusion Tables to visualize the data they collect in “
Managing and Visualizing Your Location Based Data
.” Yoni Samlan from
SCVNGR
also came to discuss developing with the Places API in “
Location-based App Development
.”
In addition to the sessions led by the Geo team, the developer sandbox featured eight Geo API partners who engaged directly with I/O attendees. Joining us in the sandbox were
HistoryPin
,
Icon Fitness
,
Ubisense
,
The Wall Street Journal
,
Footprint Feed
,
The Bay Citizen
,
Arc2Earth
, and
Travel Game
. The apps on display ranged from location-based gaming using the Latitude API to tools for citizen journalists to map public data using Fusion Tables. You can learn more about two of our sandbox partners in these video case studies:
The Bay Citizen (video)
- The Bay Citizen explains the benefits of the Fusion Tables layer with Google Maps API to build infographics for their online newspaper. The
Bike Accident Tracker
visualizes the prevalence of bike accidents across San Francisco.
Historypin (video)
- HistoryPin lets users upload historical photos, geotag them on a Google Maps, and overlay the old imagery on top of new Street View imagery, enabling users to see what their cities looked like at different points in time.
Geo APIs Summer Learning Series (apologies to the Southern Hemisphere)
But at the heart of Google I/O are the sessions themselves. This year, speakers from the Maps, Earth, and Fusion Tables teams covered a wide range of topics, from ensuring high performance and usability across all browsers to visualizing huge data sets with Fusion Tables. The amount of material covered was enormous...but we want to expand upon it.
To that end, we’re pleased to announce the "Geo APIs Summer Learning Series” on the
Geo Developers Blog
. Over the coming weeks, each talk will be getting its own blog post from the session speaker, pulling in what was discussed at I/O and then digging deeper into the technical content. Here is how the series will unfold:
Week of July 6th
Connecting People and Places
Location Based App Development using Google APIs
Secrets and Surprises of the Google Geo APIs
Week of July 11th
Managing and visualizing your location based data with Fusion Tables
Designing Maps Applications for Usability on Mobile and Desktop
Week of July 18th
High Performance KML for Maps and Earth
Speedy Maps
Week of July 25th
Map your business, inside and out
GIS with Google Earth and Google Maps
If you’d like a head start, videos of all the I/O sessions are linked above. Be sure to visit the
Geo Developers Blog
throughout July for even more great content from the Maps, Earth, and Fusion Tables teams.
Posted by Brendan Kenny, Geo Developer Relations Team
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