New Map APIs from Google
I really wish Google would offer better lower level API's, and stop trying to do high level API's like "solar potential" and "pollen prediction".<p>I basically just want a data dump of their whole map, like OSM provides, but I understand why they don't want to do that...<p>So instead give me access to the whole maps database to run bigquery queries over it, and make me pay per record I touch or record in the result set.<p>I'd love to be able to answer questions like "How far, on average, are my customers home addresses from the nearest footpath?", or "What percentage of residential addresses in the UK have an ATM within 1 mile", or "Give me a route from A to B, but not via any unpaved streets", or "Give me a list of the 100 biggest cities that have no ice rinks".