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- API Development Makes Navigating Your Website Possible
- By: KATHY TIPPLEMAN
Now the process of navigating around destinations pertaining to your website is made so much easier due to the advent of Google Maps. This is because, by using this new developer kit API you can create a map of a location that contains directions in the exact same application. Why Google Maps? Because with Google Maps API the person using your website can instantly zoom in on any location.Its Easy and it Works
For instance, this type of API can prove invaluable for a travel website. With Google Maps, a person using your website can instantly see with their own eyes any geographic feature that your website is featuring. Even if you aren't a website developer or designer which means that you most likely don't know how to implement Google Maps in your website, implimenting it is easier than you think
More Websites are Using it
The fact is, that there are services available on the Internet that can do all of the technical work for you. For someone that doesn't know what they are doing, it can be a difficult task but for an expert web designer it is no problem at all. In time you are going to be seeing more and more websites using Google Maps.
Better then a Link
With Google Maps API implemented into your website you can not just have your business location displayed but also can make it possible for the user to plot the easiest way to get to your business from where they are. What some websites are now doing is displaying a link that takes a user directly to Google Maps from their site for directions.
This is good but it requires users to lave your site to use this service. By implementing Google Maps API directly into your site a user never hast to leave your website to get directions which means that they a far less likely to be distracted to one of your competitors.
Written by Kathy Tippleman. Find the latest information on API Development