Today we'll look at a drawing overlay for maps using the Javascript API

Using the Javascript API, you can query any part of a map for the zoom level that is possible there

Adding a cursor to a streetview - to make navigation easier - is easy to do with the Javascript API

It's easy enough to set up some map views so that you can overlay the streetview for the current roadmap

Turing on visible panorama options for Streetview is pretty easy to do

It turns out that by default, streetview is enabled (assuming the back end data for it exists) for any Google streetmap.

Using streetview in Google maps is easy with Javascript

Interested in knowing what the elevation chages are for a trip? The elevation service can get you that information

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Need to calculate distances rather than directions? That's also easy with tha maps Javascript API