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Chapter 2. Introducing the Google Maps API > Hacks 10–16: Introduction
2.1. Hacks 10–16: Introduction
The Google Maps site at http://maps.google.com is awesome, with an easy user interface, one-box searching, and integrated satellite imagery. But it gets better! The Google Maps team has made it possible to include Google Maps with almost all of its great features onto your own web pages. They have done this by providing an open Application Program Interface, or API.
An API defines a standard way for one program to call code that lives within another application or library. The Google API defines a set of JavaScript objects and methods that you use to put maps on your own web pages.
