Simon Willison’s Weblog

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.

# 28th May 2009, 1:22 am / google, api-keys, google-maps, googlemaps3, mapping

oauth-signpost. The Qype API uses OAuth to sign client requests with the developer’s API key, so it’s not surprising to see them release a Java OAuth signing library compatible with Google’s Android mobile platform.

# 7th May 2009, 7:33 am / android, oauth, java, qype, api-keys