] By now, many of you will have gone and tried out the new
] Google Maps application. By and large, you have to admit
] that it's pretty damned slick for a DHTML web application
] -- even my wife was impressed, and that's not easy with
] geek toys. So, in the spirit of Google Suggest and GMail,
] I've decided to have a quick peek under the hood to
] figure out what makes it tick.

as simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google