Javascript 4 U James Robertson

Need to put a map marker down where a user clicks? It's easy to do with the javascript api.

You can style individual map elements by type using the Javascript interface to Google maps pretty easily

What if you want a weather layer on top fo a roadmap? Using the Javascript API, that's easy to do

You can use the Places API and visualization to get what's called a "radar" search result

Rather than display all of the results found from a places map search, you can use the Javascript API to paginate them

You can use the Places api to execute arbitrary searches