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When the Google Maps API was released in June 2005, there was an explosion of location-related software development. Craigslist apartment listings, Chicago crime data, Flickr photos, current news events, happy-hour locations, weather, historical sites, public transportation...just about any piece of content imaginable could be overlaid on a map using this API with a little Java Script.
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(2008). Introducing Google Mapplets. In: Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0996-6_1
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