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28th May 2009 - Link Blog

Announcing Google Maps API v3. Sounds like a complete rewrite, with performance as the key goal. Only a developer preview at the moment, but my favourite feature is that API keys are no longer required.

Posted 28th May 2009 at 1:22 am

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