“...I've been working since 2008 with Ruby / Ruby on Rails, love a bit of Elixir / Phoenix and learning Rust. I also poke through other people's code and make PRs for OpenSource Ruby projects that sometimes make it. Currently working for InPay...”

Rob Lacey (contact@robl.me)
Senior Software Engineer, Brighton, UK

Static Google Maps

Since we’re heading off to Germany in the morning, here’s a quick stab at the Google Maps Image APIs Static Maps . Looks fairly straight forward if you have the Lat/Long of the places you want to create markers for.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?zoom=6&size=900×500&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:blue|label:Brighton|50.84274,-0.106829&markers=color:green|label:Essen|51.450001,7.016700