Greetings Maps API developers,

Starting today, the Maps API team will shift most of its efforts for
supporting the community’s technical Q&A to Stack Overflow. We will retain
the current Google Groups alias for non-technical discussions and general
announcements that are not suitable for Stack Overflow.

*Why we’re moving to Stack Overflow*
Stack Overflow is a valuable platform for technical Q&A, and we’ve noticed
a significant trend over the last year, where more and more Maps API
developers have been turning to stackoverflow.com for answers.

Stack Overflow provides opportunities to expand the Maps API community, and
we believe it will foster even greater engagement within our community. In
addition, Stack Overflow has many active experts in JavaScript and other
technologies/programming languages relevant to the Maps APIs. Questions
relating to the Maps API often can be answered by general experts, so we’re
excited to be able to expose some of these questions to a wider pool of
experts.

*What’s next?*
If you have technical questions about your Maps API implementation, please
begin to ask questions on Stack Overflow. You can use the
google-maps<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-maps>tag
– along with a selection of other more
specific tags <http://code.google.com/apis/maps/forum/> – to ensure that
Maps API experts can find your question.

If you’re a long-time user and expert with the Maps API, please begin to
monitor tags and build up karma on Stack Overflow – we highly value the
contributions you make to the community, and we want to make sure that your
contributions continue to be recognised by us and the developer community
at large.

We’re excited about the benefits and opportunities that Stack Overflow will
afford our community and we look forward to providing continuing guidance
and support.

Cheers
 Chris, on behalf of the Maps API team

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