[Geowanking] questions for the Google Maps Team?

[Bucci, David G]

Thanks, Pamela, some good news here.  On the GGeoXML, I guess I don't understand why the server side parsing capability can't be included in the Enterprise distribution, for running on our own servers.  Does it simply depend too much on internal services unique to the Google infrastructure?  (it doesn't _seem_ like it would)  is it a concern about licensing or someone competing on the public internet?  Surely that'd be addressable via licensing, or simply sell it only to closed-network-only environments ...

 
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From: pamela fox [mailto:pamela.fox at gmail.com]
Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 2:20 AM
To: Bucci, David G
Cc: Brady Forrest; geowanking at geowanking.org
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] questions for the Google Maps Team?



Next time, I'll live-record the answers to the chat. Answers inline.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Bucci, David G <david.g.bucci at lmco.com> wrote:
> When will they promote the public-internet-only capabilities (e.g., GGeoXML)
> into the Enterprise version of Google Maps, that companies/agencies deploy
> on closed networks?
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No immediate plans; that's rather tricky to do. We would have to fetch
the file over XMLHR, and then send all the KML data to our servers to
be parsed by our server-side KML parser. Since we can't POST data
using JSONP, that'd be near impossible. Our other option would be to
re-implement KML parsing in JavaScript - but at that point, you may as
well use one of the open-source extensions like EGeoXml.

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> What's the forward plan to more rapidly deploy Google Maps API versions into
> that Enterprise version of Google Maps (e.g., today, the Enterprise version
> is still at v2.109 of the API, I believe)?
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In the next version, they've architected it to allow for version
updates of the API without necessitating updates of GE-E. I believe
that's coming soon.

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> What's the forward plan for increased synergy (not that it's not already
> good) between Google Maps and the Google Earth web plugin?
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Well, we just made it a bit better yesterday! We'll keep working on
it, of course:
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/05/hey-maps-api-and-earth-api-developers.html
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> I am at Google I/O at the Fireside Chat for the Maps team. Any questions for
> them? Send them soon. :-)
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> Any answers I get I will send to the list.
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