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2nd October 2008 - Link Blog

Google's Wikipedia and Panoramio layers are now available in the API. I really like their use of reverse domain style identifiers for the layer IDs: map.addOverlay(new GLayer(“org.wikipedia”));

Posted 2nd October 2008 at 11:59 am

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