Google has just announced that a new version of its Google Maps API (our Google Maps API Profile) is available as a beta release. The new version of the popular API has been developed from the ground up as a modularized set of JavaScript libraries focused on improving load speed and performance. At the Google IO Conference, the Google Maps API team indicated that the new API offers several advantages over the previous API, which originally was not designed to be as extensible or feature rich as it has become.
