September 3rd, 2009, from 11 to 6, Google is hosting a hackathon for our Google Geo APIs in our Seattle offices. At the hackathon, you can code on our Google Geo APIs, with the guidance of Google Engineers. We'll provide you with suggested codelabs, or you can just work on your own projects. You can work on the following APIs: The Google Maps API for JavaScript V2and V3, the Google Maps API for Flash, the Google Earth API, KML, and the Google Maps Data API.

So bring your laptops, and your brains, and be prepared to code.

Space is limited, so register now!

Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs Team

March 5th, from 3-9pm, Google will be hosting a Google Geo APIs hackathon at our Manhattan offices, 111 8th Avenue at 15th street in Manhattan. Join us for some hacking around on Google Geo APIs. Work on our learning materials, or work on your own projects. There will presentations on new features in the APIs, and plenty of Geo Googlers around to help you with your technical questions. In particular, we will be helping people with the Google Maps API, the Google Earth API, and KML.

To register, click here. Space is limited, so you may want to register now.

Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs Team Last Monday, 15 of us met in the Google Victoria offices for the first London Google Geo Developer Meet-up. The primary goal was to allow people to meet each other, and we certainly achieved that. A good time was had by all. In addition, we had some brief presentations:

• Tina Ornduff talked about Google Earth Education and her recent talks with educators in the UK. Some of the projects include Digital Geography, Google Lit Trips, and Real World Math
• Marc Tobias Metten gave an excellent presentation on how Nestoria uses Google Maps in their real estate site. It was interesting to hear not just about the map, but the difficulties in working with multiple data providers.
• The ex-historian in me was intrigued by Phil Gyford's presentation on Pepys' Diary, his site tracking the diary of Samuel Pepys, a 17th century resident of London. Every day, Phil blogs a day of Pepys' diary, and includes links to resources about the various figures and locations in the diary, as well as providing maps of his daily activities.
• I presented about the new Google Earth API, and showed some of the example projects.

Afterwards, we went to the The Phoenix for drinks and food. Here's a couple of photos:

Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs Team

Google Developer Day London is coming up, and I'm pretty excited. I'm coming to London for it. I'm coming to London and we're holding a meetup for geo developers on Monday, September 15th, at 4:00pm in the Google London office. We'll gather together for a couple of presentations and question and answers. Then we'll spend some time getting to know each other at a local pub.

Space is limited, so if you're coming, please let us know you're coming.