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Beginning Google Maps API 3

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Authors:
  1. Gabriel Svennerberg
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  1. Matt Wade
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  2. Clay Andres
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  3. Steve Anglin
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  6. Gary Cornell
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  8. Jonathan Hassell
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  9. Michelle Lowman
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  10. Matthew Moodie
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  12. Jeffrey Pepper
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  • 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 version 3 on web pages in both desktop and mobile browsers.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introducing the Google Maps API

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 1-6

  3. Transferring from Version 2 to 3

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 7-21

  4. Creating Your First Map

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 23-43

  5. Taking the Map Further with MapOptions

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 45-72

  6. X Marks the Spot

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 73-100

  7. Marker Icons

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 101-129

  8. InfoWindow Tips and Tricks

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 131-155

  9. Creating Polylines and Polygons

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 157-176

  10. Dealing with Massive Numbers of Markers

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 177-210

  11. Location, Location, Location

    • Gabriel Svennerberg
    Pages 211-242

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 243-310
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About this book

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 version 3 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 version 3
  • Solutions to common problems most developers encounters (too many markers, common JavaScript pitfalls)
  • Best practices using HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Google Maps

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

“The author begins with a brief history of the Google Maps API … . this practice quite helpful as I didn’t have to flip back and forth as I have in other technical books to figure out the totality of what was going on. … All in all, I’d highly recommend Beginning Google Maps API 3 to those looking to develop Google Maps applications with the new API. It’s clearly written with lots of examples and pictures of exactly what the code’s output looks like.” (North Carolina Digital Collections Collaboratory, September, 2010)

About the author

Gabriel Svennerberg is a usability-oriented web developer from Sweden. He's been working in the web industry for over a decade and is known in the web developer community for evangelizing usability and web standards. He's also known for spreading knowledge about the Google Maps API through his website, In Usability We Trust, which also features articles about usability and other things related to web development. It s found at www.svennerberg.com. At his current job at Saab Security and Defence Solutions (www.saabgroup.com), Gabriel is busy designing and building web applications for situation awareness and crisis management. These applications always incorporate maps in some way and the Google Maps API is one of the map solutions being used. Gabriel lives in V xj , Sweden with his fianc e, Petronella, and their son, Ludvig.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beginning Google Maps API 3

  • Authors: Gabriel Svennerberg

  • Editors: Matt Wade, Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Tom Welsh, Mary Tobin, Jennifer L. Blackwell, … Kim Wimpsett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2803-5

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Gabriel Svennerberg 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-2802-8Published: 27 July 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-2803-5Published: 08 September 2010

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: 328

  • Topics: Web Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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