{"id":1951,"date":"2007-08-29T15:43:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/embedded-google-maps-more-opacity\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T19:43:12","slug":"embedded-google-maps-more-opacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/embedded-google-maps-more-opacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedded Google maps: more opacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Google really missed the mark with its attempt at\n<a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/youtube-style-embeddable-maps_21.html\">embeddable maps<\/a>.  I suppose something is better than nothing for the myriads of folks who want this functionality, but when a simpler, less opaque solution (read; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coactus.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/mobile-ajax-workshop-position-paper\/\">declarative<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/n01se.net\/gmapez\/\">GMapEZ<\/a>, has existed for ages, you have to wonder what Google were thinking.  The blob of HTML you get might as well be Javascript, or heck, even a Java applet in the sense that it&#8217;s opaque to all but the most inquisitive of developers.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is becoming a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/blogs\/dbox\/archive\/2006\/12\/20\/45379.aspx\">bad trend<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think Google really missed the mark with its attempt at embeddable maps. I suppose something is better than nothing for the myriads of folks who want this functionality, but when a simpler, less opaque solution (read; declarative), GMapEZ, has existed for ages, you have to wonder what Google were thinking. The blob of HTML [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,12,35],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ajax","tag-google","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}