A while back I started on a map centric project during our 5.5+ year sailing trip (http://ff.im/4gfo2). It was my introduction to Google, it's API's and group help forums.
After a year I can honestly say I was spoiled rotten here. With amazing support, tutorials by Mike Williams (and others), the issue tracker and changelog painstakingly updated by Pamela.. this group is an example of how user supported help groups could/should work. Unfortunately this is not the case in most of the other product and developer forums throughout Google. Each product or API I added to my suite became another Google critical path element, further increasing my frustration with the Google "Wall of Silence". It is already hard enough to battle the browser differences and proper product documentation/support as a individual developer, resting your reputation and efforts on a set of products/apis without support, feedback or timing is almost impossible (and almost certainly insane). Instead of dwelling on the negative, I want to focus my positive energy on the group that showed me what could be accomplished through powerful APIs and proper (group) support. Thanks for that Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
