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Integrate the Google Maps API Into Your Website

By Brennan | October 22, 2016

Are you building an application that needs to calculate the cycling, walking or driving distance between two addresses? Google offers a handy service called the Google Maps Distance Matrix API that you can use to get this information and present it to your users. The service is free, and you can specify the mode of… Read More »

Firefox Sometimes Crashes when Loading Google Maps

By Brennan | December 13, 2015

Symptom: Opening a new tab in Firefox and going to maps.google.com sometimes results in Firefox crashing. Firefox version: 42.0 OS: Linux Mint 17.2 Graphics card: AMD Radeon 7870 Graphics Driver: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 (AMD/ATI display driver wrapper) Other symptoms: Sometimes small sections of text in Firefox are unreadable (blotched) until scrolling it off and back on… Read More »