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The Google Maps API was free for commercial use, provided that the site on which it is being used is publicly accessible and did not charge for access, and was not generating more than 25,000 map accesses a day. [135] [136] Sites that did not meet these requirements could purchase the Google Maps API for Business. [137]
The APIs provide functionality like analytics, machine learning as a service (the Prediction API) or access to user data (when permission to read the data is given). Another important example is an embedded Google map on a website, which can be achieved using the Static Maps API, [1] Places API [2] or Google Earth API. [3]
It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3] Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as "plus codes". Open Location Code is a way of encoding location into a form that is easier to use than showing coordinates in the usual form of latitude and longitude. Plus codes are ...
Leaflet is an open-source, JavaScript-based library for creating interactive maps. It was created in 2011 by Volodymyr Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen. [5] It covers a wide range of features a developer would need in creating interactive maps.
The standard style for OpenStreetMap, like most Web maps, uses the Web Mercator projection. Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted ...
The AdSense and AdWords APIs, based on the SOAP data exchange standard, allow developers to integrate their own applications with these Google services. The AdSense API allows owners of websites and blogs to manage AdSense sign-up, content and reporting, while the AdWords API gives AdWords customers programmatic access to their AdWords accounts and campaigns.
In 2012 Google Earth began offering 3D models of some major cities using stereophotogrammetry [53] which allows users to measure the height of buildings and trees by adjusting the altitude of a Polygon in 3D, or use the Ruler function to measure the height of an object in a 3D path in Google Earth Pro. [54]
Google Maps – a mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing directions and local business search. Google My Maps – a social custom map making tool based on Google Maps. Google Earth – a virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography, GIS from Google's repository.