26 December 2010

Israel Google Maps API for Flash

A3 sends:

Perhaps curiosity killed the cat, but I wondered if I could find a street view of Israel, so I searched. I'm years too late to have a peek myself, but look what I found:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash/browse_thread/thread/90502a7b1e4f2063/
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Excerpt:

Google Maps API For Flash

From: Gavri <gavri....[at]gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:37:53 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Dec 15 2008 8:37 pm
Subject: israel street view now open but only for flash api

i know a few people in the past asked when google will share a street
zoom view of israel?
well, today i saw on my sandbox server that the gmap street view is
available for israel.
what interests me is how come it's only open to flash api while the
javascript api is still blocked for detail street view?
i didn't see any place that announces this - is this current state
stable?
can i count on it to remain open in the future?

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From: "pamela (Google Employee)" <pamela...[at]gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:33:41 +1100
Local: Sun, Dec 28 2008 12:33 am
Subject: Re: israel street view now open but only for flash api

Hi Gavri-

Thanks for the report. The Israel data is not in fact meant to be
exposed in the API; we have a bug in our API. We're looking into it
now.

Apologies to any developers that were misled into thinking this data
is now a part of the API.

- pamela

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Hi Perry-

I don't know if we'll ever have the license for the high-resolution
Israel data in the API, or if we do, at what time that will happen.
The current tiles do have decent satellite imagery, so you could just
use hybrid as your map type for now.

- pamela