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20th May 2009 - Link Blog

Google Maps Data API (via) I’m disappointed by this one—it’s really just a CRUD store for the KML files used in Google MyMaps. It would be a lot more useful if it let you perform geospatial calculations against your stored map data using some kind of query API—a cloud service alternative to tools like PostGIS.

Posted 20th May 2009 at 9:07 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 20th May 2009.

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