Public transit data, a key piece of the Google Maps experience, will soon find its way into third-party applications as the map-making experts at Google have just added transit to its Maps API.

The Directions API is a web service that uses an HTTP request to return JSON or XML-formatted directions between locations. You can receive directions for several modes of transportation, such as ...

The Google Maps API has been a mess when it comes to pricing. The company is making moves to clean that up with a newly announced pay-as-you-go model.

Google's Maps Engine, its enterprise-focused service for developers who need to be able to create their own maps based on custom data, launched about two ...

Amazon has launched a new Maps API. While at the moment the new Amazon Maps API is just for Android developers working on the Kindle Fire apps, several of Amazon's other APIs have started ...

On July 16, Google Maps is going to make it more difficult and expensive to use its API, which could make custom maps that rely on the service less sustainable or even unfeasible for the people ...

Google touts that its new Maps Engine API can be used for virtually any kind of application, with business use cases ranging from healthcare to retail.

Google announces the Google Maps Engine API, allowing developers to bring the power of Maps Engine into their own applications. With a single map, an organization can locate underground pipelines, ...

The Google Places API for iOS, first launched in beta mode a few months back, is now available to all developers and will be arriving soon in a number of notable iOS apps.

Google Maps API Maximum Zoom – Part 5: A detailed look – the Americas As we have mentioned before, the maximum zoom available in Google Maps varies between 7 and 22.