http://www.snelders.net Java playground Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well that Java API for Google Maps doesn't exists which is a shame. Especially considering the fact that there is an API for Flash! With the help of this post "How Google Maps Works", I created this small useless (no navigation/zooming yet) proof of concept which caches the map-tiles on disk ... http://www.snelders.net/?p=34 While figuring out how to implement face detection in Java I created this very simple face-detection-application. It is based on Intel's Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) library. Since I used JNI together with dll's only, the application currently only runs on Windows but should be easily extended to Linux. // http://www.snelders.net/?p=3