Google Maps is an integral part of many apps used across the Web and mobile devices. Developers need to know how to make the best use of the service. That’s why Google holds roundtables with the people working on these products to show off the new features hitting their respective services.

Here’s what you can expect to see today from the folks behind Google Maps:

For the second part of our “A Journey of 245k Points” series, Paul Saxman shows some cool tricks for creating stunning map visualizations of numerous ship voyages using polylines, making polylines interactive, and creating animations of voyages with symbols.