I checked the official AdSense blog, and I’m subscribed to both the official Maps API blog and their LatLong blog, and I haven’t seen an announcement for it yet. The class reference page page says that those two classes were added in version 2.85; version 2.84 is being served up by default right now. In case you’re not aware, Google updates their API about every two weeks. I’m not sure how long v2.84 has been out, but I’m guessing that it won’t be long before we hear about the official release of the new classes. If you have a maps application and you want to try it, all you have to do is specify v=2.85 in the querystring of the Maps API script source.

While it’s not so much a technological revelation, I predict that the income this can generate for developers will lead to better and more numerous applications. With the massive number of new web startups out there that are funded by AdSense already, we’re certain to see the same thing happen with sites that use Google Maps. Whereas AdSense ads may have been placed beside a map up to now, the ability to embed ads directly into the map that already has the visitors attention is really going to do well for the developer.

Anyway, in the meantime, I’ve signed up for AdSense. I added my new AdSense ID to the GAdsManager class in a map in one of my development apps, and I called GAdsManager.enable() so that the ads will show. All I’m waiting on now is Google’s AdSense indexing bot (or whatever one calls it) so ads will be shown on the map based on the page text surrounding the map. I don’t want to disclose the URL just yet as it’s something we use for development, but I’ll let you know and take some screenshots once I do start seeing ads on the map. Should be interesting to see where we go from here!