Location based services and maps company MapmyIndia has publicly launched its Map API platform for software developers and enterprises. The APIs are REST (HTTP/JSON) and JavaScript based, hence will ...

Google has introduced a new API for its Maps Engine, touted to enable developers to build "endless kinds of applications" all while hosted in the Internet giant's cloud. To recall, The Maps Engine is ...

Google Maps is updating its Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) API to improve direction accuracy in busy areas. The update combines gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer data, reducing magnetic ...

Google today released a set of improvements to the Google Maps APIs for developers looking to use transit directions in their Android apps. Specifically, users can now receive fare info where ...

For seven years, Google has been hosting a Maps API that web developers have been using to build unique maps and visualizations based on Google's huge store of data. Awesome journalistic efforts like ...

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Google Maps is partially down this morning with the outage particularly impacting its website and APIs for third-party applications that use Google’s location ...