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Found a great article by Jason Gilmore over at developer.com called, Performing HTTP Geocoding with the Google Maps API. It helped me get past a roadblock on the way to getting some API work done on one of my sites.

I spent all of today playing around with the Google Maps API, it's pretty interesting stuff. I actually opted for Google over Yahoo's because I felt Google had the better satellite images.

I later came upon a site that distinctly pointed out the differences between the two. It turns out Yahoo Maps has their own Geocoding solution in their API. Google seems to let you figure that part out yourself, somewhat. I kind of wished I had known that before, but then thinking about it some more I realized that it wouldn't have made their satellite images any better. Unfortunately.

I just had one heck of an ordeal trying to install the iPhone Final SDK on my Powerbook. I had actually done it with the first beta, thanks to a nice workaround pointed out by Mike Rundle.

Basically, all you needed to do was manually install the iPhone-related extra packages, which all had the prefix "Aspen". This time around they've done away with the "Aspen" prefix and just replaced it with "iPhone", which isn't really too big a problem.

The new problem was in how the SDK reconfigured XCode to throw up a compilation error because it only wanted to run on intel Macs.

While perusing the comments of Mike Rundle's blog posting I ran across this post by Tom Bradford. It looked like Tom had already figured the workaround by locating the file that XCode read, to see the list of which processors it was allowed to compile the iPhone SDK on.

So, with that settled I went forward and followed all the directions. Unfortunately, and probably due to some past XCode meddling, I kept on running into some gcc-4.0.1 error. I relented, uninstalled, and then reinstalled XCode and the iPhone SDK, followed the workaround directions, and now everything seems to be in order because I just ran the "Hello World" sample app that you can download from the iPhone Dev Center, and it WORKS!

All I can say is thank Goodness for these two individuals.

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