Google Earth - coming of age?

posted on 13th June 2006 by Jon

Google is finally adding geographic-coding support to Google maps (version 4.0 is now being released) so developers can get the coordinates for a street address. This has been a bit of an issue for us here at Score as we’re one of the 30,000+ developers who have been trying to make Google Maps work for us and our clients. The potential for this piece of software to revolutionise online mapping is virtually limitless, but until we are able to geo-code from within the API, much of what this great facility can offer will remain untapped as far as we’re concerned.

More on this ZDNet article