Google 'Static' Maps API
Google 'Static' Maps API
"The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading."
Pro's:
- No Javascript
- Works on standard webpages
- Designed for mobile/cell device developers
- Normal and Mobile Map Types
Con's
- Limited to only 1000 unique image requests per user per day.
- Limited function, non interactive
- GIF-format only
- Very long urls
Source:
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-maps-without-scripting.html
1 Comments:
A few more cons:
* No custom marker icons (yet)
* No lines (yet)
* Limited size (no posters to print!)
I'm hoping that Google are working towards properly printable maps with all the annotations possible with the API.
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