Google Maps and Google Code

Google has recently announced and released two very cool new offerings. Google Maps has got to be one of the coolest web/script only applications that offers that particular type of functionality. It is incredibly fast and I definitely enjoyed having my region there in all it's glory. You definitely have to check it out. It is still just a beta but I really hope to see the ability to link to it for directions (which is pulls off flawlessly) and perhaps some developer API's. I know from past experience with ESRI this web based interface seems like a real charm.

Along with the maps they have yet another site, Google Code that has some decent code and API documentation. Since the old BLogger API appears to be malfunctioning a bit I was glad to see the Atom API documentation listed there. I need to update my blogging tool to use it so I can get rid of those pesky error messages.