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23rd March 2007 - Link Blog

New Open Source Utility Library for the Google Maps API (via) Google are taking a hybrid approach to development on their Maps API—an open source utility library layered on top of their closed source, obfuscated core code.

Posted 23rd March 2007 at 9:09 pm

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