Google Maps API is launched

Read about it here. In my last post I talked about Google and Yahoo trading punches - well, I think that Google is landing fewer but bigger shots. Google Maps is a roundhouse, and until Microsoft launches their TerraServer product as Virtual Earth on MSN (supposedly launching any moment at Where 2.0) Google Maps is the standard. There are already all sorts of cool mashups out there, and now that the API is out, this will explode. Um, where is Yahoo on this?