The Google Maps API V3

What is the Google Maps API?

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

This Google Maps API V3 will look similar to the existing version 2 of the Google Maps API. However, much has changed under the hood: Version 3 has been designed to load fast, especially on mobile browsers such as Android-based devices and the iPhone™. The initial launch has a smaller feature set than that available in the V2 API. Additional features from V2 will be migrated while working to keep the size of the JavaScript code small and maintain our optimized loading speeds.