Re: Which of Googles Map Products to Use

You've described everything you tried, but you have said nothing about
the type of application you want to write, and that's probably the
most important bit of information we'd need to answer your question.
What should your application do? What sort of user interaction do you
need? Who are your target audience?, etc...

Other than that, whether a terrain map can be added to Google Earth is
a question better suited for the Google Earth group.

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On Nov 6, 1:46 pm, New Hampshire Yankee <B...@GoPCC.com> wrote:
> I started a map project using Google Maps V2. I found V2 to be bloated
> with all kinds of features I do not need. This is probably the reason
> V2 is so PAINFULLY slow.
>
> I then switch to Google Maps API V3. Although the API much better
> written than V2 and much faster, it is feature poor and not really
> useful for my purposes. However, I found the quality of V3 code to be
> far superior to V2 code. Unfortunately, It appears the only reason for
> V3's existence is for mobile phones. Will V2 be phased out in the
> near future in favor of an enhanced V3? If so what happens to all the
> code written using V2? Will all V2 functions be put in V3? I am not
> sure I Google would do that since V2 has a much different API than V3.
>
> I then switched to the Google Earth API without using either of the
> Google Maps APIs. The quality of the Google Earth API code is much
> better than Google Maps V2. However, the Google Earth API does not
> have the TERRAIN base map which exists in both of the Google Maps
> APIs. The so called TERRAIN ("uuidterrain") base map in the Google
> Earth API is really a satellite base map. This is totally
> unacceptable for my purposes since the map is of poor quality and
> causes the developer-created overlays to be very hard to read.
>
> I then tried using Google Earth API with Google Maps V3, but I found
> this was not currently supported.
>
> I then tried using Google Earth API with Google Maps V2. However, it
> appears that although Google Maps V2 allows you to get an instance of
> the Google Earth API, it does not allow the Google Earth API to place
> overlays on Google Maps V2 base maps. I found this to be a bit
> strange. I thought that if the Google Earth API would allow me to put
> overlays on the Google Maps V2 terrain base maps, I would be home
> free. No luck!
>
> I even ventured to the new Bing Maps SDK 6.2. The Bing API code is of
> high quality and professionally written, but lacks many of the
> features in Google Maps and Google Earth.
>
> So where am I now? What would be ideal? I would like to use the
> Google Earth API (without using either version of Google Maps) with
> the TERRAIN map that exists in the Google Maps APIs (V2 and V3). Does
> anyone know if this is possible?

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