Google I/O – Performance Tips for Geo API Mashups

Google I/O 2009 – Performance Tips for Geo API Mashups Pamela Fox, Marcelo Camelo, Sasha Aickin This talk will provide tips on reducing latency for your maps mashup, discussing topics like marker management, clustering, custom tiles, static maps, flash maps, encoded polys, light markers, latency oriented features of the JavaScript Maps API, and more. For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html

http://www.youtube.com/v/zI8at1EmJjA?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata

Google Developer Day coming to a city near you in 2011

 

As Vic Gundotra announced previously, Google Developer Day (GDD) will be coming to eight cities in 2011. Please save the date, as we prepare to bring our world tour of GDDs to a city near you.

  • September 16: Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • September 19-20: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • October 10: Moscow, Russia
  • October 18: Prague, Czech Republic
  • November 1: Tokyo, Japan
  • November 8: Sydney, Australia
  • November 13: Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • November 19: Berlin, Germany

Google Developer Days are a chance to learn about our latest developer products and meet the engineers who work on them. As in years past, we will have an application process when registration opens, so stay tuned, as we will continue to bring you updates.

Create Indoor Shopping Mall Maps

Google I/O App for Android


For the Google I/O conference this year Google created a pretty cool Android App that included a number of features, including a schedule, details about the sessions, buzz about I/O via a real-time search stream and a conference map.

Google has now open-sourced the code for the app. If you want to create a similar app for a conference you can download the code and adapt it to suit your needs.

One of my favourite presentations from Google I/O this year was Map Your Business Inside Out by Brendan Kenny and Chris Broadfoot of Google. Essentially in the presentation Brendan and Chris demonstrated how the Google Maps API can be used to create indoor maps for large conference centers or shopping malls.

You can view the presentation in full in this video:

In the presentation Brendan and Chris explain how you can attach floor-plan overlays to a Google Map, how you can label the floor-plan and how you can develop custom Street Views for your map.

If you are interested in creating your own indoor map then you might find these resources useful: