Google's announced that its making it easier for developers to integrate Google Maps services into their apps with Java and Python libraries.

First, we need an authorization key to use the Google Maps Geocoding API (~40,000 requests/month are free). The majority of APIs will always need us to include an authorization key with our calls ...

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.

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.

Google offered some details about its plan to rate-limit the Google Maps API in a statement posted yesterday on the company’s Geo Developers blog. Developers who exceed the rate limits will have ...