Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Your First Google Maps
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Beyond the Basics
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Advanced Map Features and Methods
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About this book
Until recently, building interactive web-based mapping applications has been a cumbersome affair. This changed when Google released its powerful Maps API. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax was written to help you take advantage of this technology in your own endeavorswhether you're an enthusiast playing for fun or a professional building for profit. This book covers version 2 of the API, including Google's new Geocoding service.
Authors Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, and Michael Purvis get rolling with examples that require hardly any code at all, but you'll quickly become acquainted with many facets of the Maps API. They demonstrate powerful methods for simultaneously plotting large data sets, creating your own map overlays, and harvesting and geocoding sets of addresses. You'll see how to set up alternative tile sets and where to access imagery to use for them. The authors even show you how to build your own geocoder from scratch, for those high-volume batch jobs.
As well as providing hands-on examples of real mapping projects, this book supplies a complete reference for the Maps API, along with the relevant aspects of JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL. Visit the authors' website for additional tips and advice.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax
Book Subtitle: From Novice to Professional
Authors: Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0224-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Apress 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0224-0Published: 22 December 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 384
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems