Important: We’re moving our support forums for Maps API technical questions to Stack Overflow

[Chris Broadfoot (Google Employee)]

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 tag – along with a selection of other more specific tags – 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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