Global Developers Integrating with Google Apps

One of the things we enjoy most at Google is working with talented developers around the world, whether Googlers at one of our many global offices or developers using our APIs to build great products. With today’s App Tuesday we’re excited to introduce some new apps to the Google Apps Marketplace with roots outside the United States.

Brightpearl joins us from the United Kingdom
SprinxCRM is from the Czech Republic
Producteev’s founders hail from France
Clio calls Canada home

With the addition of these apps, Google Apps customers now have easy access to apps from 25 countries outside the United States, including Australia, Germany, India, Russia, Singapore and more. While the initial version of the Google Apps Marketplace Billing API will only be available to US sellers, we want all developers to be able to integrate with Google Apps and sell their business-focused web apps on the Apps Marketplace. Because of this, we recently modified our revenue sharing exemption period to last until 3 months after the release of the Marketplace Billing APIs for a country where you are located. So, if you would like to build an app for the Google Apps Marketplace, Get Started now.

Don’t forget our first ever G-Days in Egypt and Jordan are coming up soon, as our our Google Developer Days and Dev Fests in São Paulo, Buenos Aries, Munich, Prague, and Moscow. If you’re attending those events, please stop by and introduce yourself to members of the Google Apps Marketplace team and tell us about the exciting apps you’re building!

By Steve Bazyl, Google Apps Marketplace Team

Three decades of watching life recover at Mt. St. Helens

Each year since the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, NASA has captured imagery of the area using one of their Landsat satellites. Over the course of those 30 years, you can watch how the earth slowly reclaims the land that was destroyed in the eruption.

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You can view all of the images on their site, read about how the area was affected by the blast, and see how it’s beginning to recover:

Not surprisingly, the first noticeable recovery (late 1980s) takes place in the northwestern quadrant of the blast zone, farthest from the volcano. It is another decade (late 1990s) before the terrain east of Spirit Lake is considerably greener. By the end of the series, the only area (beyond the slopes of the mountain itself) that remains conspicuously bare at the scale of these images is the Pumice Plain.

If you want to see the imagery inside of Google Earth

you can use this KMZ file (27MB), or watch the video below which shows all of the images from 1979 through today.

Finding Speed Traps with Google Maps

PoliceTraps.com


This iPhone app uses Google Maps to show you the location of speed cameras and traps near your current location. The website also includes a Google Map so you can check for the locations of the latest speed traps before you leave home.

Traps mapped on the map have been submitted by other PoliceTraps.com users. Users can report traps or road incidents and earn karma for their submissions. It is possible to report a trap from your phone or from the website.

The map itself uses different map marker icons for the different types of submissions. The markers indicate if the report is of a speed camera or a speed trap.

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