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It's been interesting to watch the Google Maps API as it rode from "The Coolest thing EVER" in 2004 to the non-issue status it holds today. Back in the day, co
by jasonkester 16y ago
It's been interesting to watch the Google Maps API as it rode from "The Coolest thing EVER" in 2004 to the non-issue status it holds today.
Back in the day, companies were getting tens of millions in funding to build apps where users could place pins on a map. That says a lot about the hype surrounding it, since that's essentially the app you got when you pasted their sample code into your IDE and hooked it up to a database.
Today, it's just expected that any application you build will have a GMaps implementation somewhere in it, but it's just old-hat. I actually run one of those GMaps-based startups from back in the day, and I haven't kept up on the latest API changes for years.