Hi All, Thank you for chiming in with your thoughts. We're listening :-)
As Chris Broadfoot mentioned in the original post, we believe that the move to Stack Overflow will be beneficial. Although the occasional code dump may occur, we're in the early stages and this is *our (i.e., you and us) *opportunity to shape how the community participates on Stack Overflow. There are small things, like tagging questions that are more about JavaScript than maps with the "JavaScript" tag in order to make them more broadly accessible to JavaScript developers, and bigger things, like identifying which is a more suitable answer in those instances when a question may have multiple answers. To avoid code dumps, we will/should continue to guide developers to link to live code. Many thanks in advance for your continuing participation in our community. See you over on Stack Overflow. -Andres Google Maps Developer Relations On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:10 AM, SpoilsportMotors < spoilsportmot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 12, 4:55 pm, "DropaBalm.com Jambo" <ja...@dropabalm.com> wrote: > > Not a pity. Stack Overflow is GREAT. They have a great platform for > > doing tech Q&A. Many times when you going looking from the solution to > > an tech issue, you will find the the best, authoritative, validated > > info on a Stack Overflow entry. Suspend disbelief and give it a run. > > > > Note, Andrew didn't say we are throwing this over there and "You're on > > your own, kids!" > > > > Google tech support folks using Stack Overflow for tech Q&A will > > produce a valuable resource. > > I'm tempted to agree, with the minor caveat that I wish they'd thrown > this over to http://gis.stackexchange.com/ instead. I can see why not, > in that many of the questions are not, strictly speaking, GIS related. > The exposure to more people on these lists of GIS concepts wouldn't > hurt, though. In any event, I do like the idea of Google support > actively monitoring Stack Overflow and helping out there. It's a > better way in many ways to help eliminate duplicate questions and > encourage community support. Keeping the code dumps down may be > problematic, though.... > > Herb. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
