Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax
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The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. This is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Web applications.
In the Beginning.. • In the history of the Internet, 2005-2006 will be remembered as the year when online mapping finally came of age. Prior to 2005, MapQuest and other mapping services allowed you to look up directions, search for locations, and map businesses, but these searches were limited, usu ally to the companies the services had partnered with, so you couldn't search for any location. On February 8, 2005, Google changed all that. As it does with many of its services, Google qui etly released the beta of Google Maps to its Labs incubator (http: //labs . google. com) and let word-of-mouth marketing promote the new service. By all accounts, Google Maps was an instant hit. It was the first free mapping service to provide satellite map views of any location on the earth, allowing anyone to look for familiar places. This started the "I can see my house from here" trend, and set the blogosphere abuzz with links to Google Maps locations around the world.
The first book to comprehensively introduce the Google Maps API
Mashups are popular with general consumers: there are sites that map out rentals on Craigslist.org (http://www.housingmaps.com/), find used cars for sales (https://www.dudewheresmyusedcar.com/) and track Amazon rankings (http://www.titlez.com/welcome.aspx)
Authored by three developers actively involved in the creation of location-based mapping services
The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. In fact, interest in the Google service is so strong that it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon, along with a number of websites intended to highlight some of the exciting applications developers are building with the mapping API. Google Maps Application Development is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Web applications. Proceeding far beyond creating a simplistic map display, readers are shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as geocode.us and the U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line data to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping any location in North America. Readers are guided through various examples demonstrating how to encourage user interaction such as pinpointing map locations, adding comments, and building community-driven maps.
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Jeffrey Sambells
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