A List Apart has an interesting though somewhat lengthy article titled Take Control of Your Maps. Paul Smith discusses the proliferation of maps in web application mashups. Paul particularly calls out Google Maps because of its popularity and ease of use by both designers and developers.
However, despite the well documented Google Maps API, he rightly [...]

On my way home from work I spotted a Google Street Maps Car or at least that what I think it was. The car had a funky contraption mounted on the roof, California license plates, a GPS or similar device on the dash, and a Google logo on the door. This is one of the [...]