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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: googlemaps3</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/googlemaps3.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-05-28T01:22:45+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Announcing Google Maps API v3</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/28/googlemaps/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-05-28T01:22:45+00:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T01:22:45+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/28/googlemaps/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/05/announcing-google-maps-api-v3.html"&gt;Announcing Google Maps API v3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Sounds like a complete rewrite, with performance as the key goal. Only a developer preview at the moment, but my favourite feature is that API keys are no longer required.


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