Beginning Google Maps Mashups with Mapplets, KML, and GeoRSS
Beginning Google Maps Mashups with Mapplets, KML, and GeoRSS is a beginner’s guide to creating web mashups using Google mapping technology.
- Serves as a single–source primer to displaying data on Google Maps
- Covers both mapplets and the Google Maps API
- Provides everything you need to start participating in the Geographic Web
What you’ll learn
- “Mash up” GeoWeb services onto a Google map.
- Package your mashup as a mapplet and publish it to maps.google.com.
- Enhance your map with driving directions, local search, map advertising, and more.
- Discover common Google–mapping mistakes to avoid.
- Find out how and when to geocode existing data into mappable coordinates.
- Deliver your own data as GeoXML.
Categories: Google Maps, XML Tags: API, GeoCode, GeoCoding, GeoRSS, GeoWeb, GeoXML, KML, Mapplets, Maps, Mashups
Beginning Google Maps API 3
This book is about the next generation of the Google Maps API. It will provide the reader with the skills and knowledge necessary to incorporate Google Maps v3 on web pages in both desktop and mobile browsers.
It also describes how to deal with common problems that most map developers encounter at some point, like performance and usability issues with having too many markers and possible solutions to that.
- Introduction to the Google Maps API v3
- Solutions to common problems most developers encounters (too many markers, common JavaScript pitfalls)
- Best practices using HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Google Maps
What you’ll learn
- Building reliable Google Maps web applications
- How to transfer from version 2 to version 3 of the API
- Best practices using HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Dealing with large amounts of map markers
- How to look up addresses and coordinates using GeoCoding and reversed GeoCoding
Categories: CSS, Google Maps, HTML, Javacript Tags: Gabriel Svennerberg, GeoCoding, Maps