Pre Google Maps Maps
Google Maps is great. It’s all fancy schmancy, and has it’s own API, and all of that pretty stuff. There are a couple of problems though, you can’t get a super high resolution map, and they don’t work so well if you want to plot tens of thousands of points (things get kinda slow). In short, it works pretty good for country level mapping and smaller, but if you want to map stuff on a global level, you might need something else. I start looking around and find…..
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