Thanks, Chris -- and thanks to all the developers here that make it such a helpful community. You all have held this API up longer than I have. I'll follow-up offline re the other developer products, as I'd like the experience to be the same across Google.
- pamela On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:13 PM, SV Billabong <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
