Google Latitude API
There is not currently an API offered by Google Latitude. Does anyone know of plans for being offered in the future? If it does, what social networking applications for this technology can you think of? ...
Is there any way to Add Extra Details to the route on Google Maps?
Is there a way on Google Maps to specify a Long & Lat reference of an intersection and should the route intersect these coordinates, that extra information be provided in an info Bubble? The problem we are having is that the current route information is too basic, i.e. "Turn Left 26km" , we would like to have extra details about the t...
How does Google Protocol Buffers compare to ASN.1
What are the most noticable differences between Google Protocol Buffers and ASN.1 (with PER-encoding)? For my project the most imporant issue is the size of the serialized data. Has anyone done any data-size comparisons between the two? ...
Google Checkout : Best way to handle cart editing and checkout confirmation
Hello all, I am in the process of implementing Google Checkout in an e-store. Once customers click the 'Google Checkout' button, my project requires that they are able to navigate back to the e-store to possibly edit the cart. Customers should be able to click the 'back' button, type in the URL to my cart page, or click the 'edit' link ...
How does the PageRank algorithm handle links?
We discussed Google's PageRank algorithm in my algorithms class. What we discussed was that the algorithm represents webpages as a graph and puts them in an adjacency matrix, then does some matrix tweaking. The only thing is that in the algorithm we discussed, if I link to a webpage, that webpage is also considered to link back to me. ...
Why does Google Search return HTTP Error 403?
Hey guys, Consider the following Python code: 30 url = "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Monkey" 31 url_object = urllib.request.urlopen(url); 32 print(url_object.read()); When this is run, an Exception is thrown: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/urllib/request.py", line 485, in http_error_default raise HTT...
Google JSON/Ajax API - how do you get the next page of results?
According to : http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje I get back a cursor result, but stupidly, the moreResultsUrl returns a URL NOT to the JSON service but to the main site - how do instead fetch the next page of results into JSON? ...
How to use draggable sections like on iGoogle?
When viewing iGoogle, each section is able to be drag-and-dropped to anywhere else on the page and then the state of the page is saved. I am curious on how this is done as I would like to provide this functionality as part of a proof of concept? ...
Indy HTTP: reading response content on a 403
I am having a problem using Indy HTTP (in Delphi) with the Google Contacts API. Please refer to the section "ClientLogin Response" on the following page: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html The server returns a 403 when the authentication is incorrect or an error occurs... as expected. However, accordi...
Determining if a lat-long circle and a circle on a sphere overlap
I am creating an application with Geo Proximity Search capability using PHP as server scripting language and MySQL as Databse. Consider a situation: Where we have certain set of objects having latitude and longitude positions assosciated with respective objects. On specifying location details like country and/or city along with range/r...
IPhone App using Google Maps?
I have an IPhone game app idea that will use Google Maps and was wondering if I could charge for a app that used Google Maps? This will be like a mashup. ...
Google Maps api access possibilities for iphone? (processing javascript without UIWebView)
I want to access some data from Google maps. the only way possible is using JS for that. I'm not trying to access it through a webview. usercase: I have point 1 (lat,lng) and point 2 (lat,lng). I want to use Google maps api to determine what the driving distance is between those 2. So in other words I want to use the Google maps ap...
Using markers and polylines with google maps api
I have a map and it has both markers and polylines. Now I need to seperate these polylines and the markers on different layers I.E When i want to remove the polylines i just execute the method with layer name that removes the polyline's layer can you please help me with this? ...
How to filter myself out of Google Analytics with a dynamic IP address?
Does anyone know how to setup Google Analytics to filter yourself out if you're visiting the site from a dynamic IP address? I don't want to include myself in my stats from home use where I have a dynamic IP address via Verizon FiOS. ...
Authentication combination OpenID & Facebook
Is it possible to use a combination of authentication systems in a web app? I want to use OpenId, however I think my potential customers are actually more likely to have a Facebook ID. Therefore I wonder if it is possible to offer both types of authentication? ...
Google sees something that it shouldn't see. Why?
For some mysterious reason, Google has indexed both these adresses, that lead to the same page: /something/some-text-1055.html and /index.php?pg=something&id=1055 (short notice - the site has had friendly urls since its launch, I have no idea how google found the "index.php?" url - there are "unfriendly" urls only in the content mana...
mp4 encoding used by Google Video?
I have an HTC Touch HD on which mp4 videos downloaded from Google Video play the best, both in terms of video and audio quality. So I am wondering which settings exactly Google Video uses to encode videos into mp4, so that I can replicate it for videos not available on Google Video. A tool which reads an mp4 file and tells you all the e...
Why does a google search through the google api return different results to a search in the web page?
I think the question pretty much sums up my query. ...
Implementation: How to retrieve and send emails for different Gmail accounts?
Hello all, I need advice and how to got about setting up a simple service for my users. I would like to add a new feature where users can send and receive emails from their gmail account. I have seen this done several times and I know its possible. There use to be a project for "Libgmailer" at sourceforge but I think it was abandoned. ...
OpenID -- getting user information?
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to request more information besides email from Google and get the name of the user also? Am using JanRain OpenID PHP script. Thank you ...