Version 2 of the API is now distributed as part of the Google Play services SDK, which can be downloaded with the Android SDK Manager. Mobile maps are a very popular category with mobile-device users.

Google launched its latest sustainability tool, a series of environmental geospatial APIs that help cities, businesses, and other partners map solar, air quality, and pollen data worldwide.

The new Google Maps Embed API will make it even easier for Webmasters to place Google Maps into Web pages for use by site visitors, according to Google.

On July 16, Google Maps is going to make it more difficult and expensive to use its API, which could make custom maps that rely on the service less sustainable or even unfeasible for the people ...