google maps

At the Google Developer Day London Edition yesterday, Andrew Eland, lead engineer on Google Maps in Zurich, announced that AdSense for the Maps API is coming soon.

The marker on the map looks slightly different than the normal ones, and when clicked on show a sponsored link. Developers are allowed to chose whether they want ads on the map, and if so how many ads to display. Google created this to allow developers to monetise their mashups, and if users do click through, the revenue for that ad will be shared.

Let’s hope that it won’t be annoying, popping out everywhere on the map…

[via gSpy]