- By Michael Young , Michael Purvis
- ISBN13: 978-1-4302-1029-0
- ISBN10: 1-4302-1029-X
- 350 pp.
- Not Yet Published
- Price: $34.99
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Practical Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets, GeoRSS and KML
Have a Google Maps mashup that you’d like to expose to millions of users on maps.google.com? New to the mapping craze, but have an idea for a killer map–based application?
Practical Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets, GeoRSS, and KML
- Is the first book to cover Google’s new Mapplet technology
- Shows you how to create Google Maps–based applications and publish to maps.google.com
- Is a single–source resource and practical guide to Mapplets and mashups
- Teaches you how to mash up Mapplets using location–specific data
- Includes examples of real–world applications
What you’ll learn
Readers will be taken through the process of building a mashup of multiple data sources and APIs, using Tourfilter’s concert and event data to map concerts and venue information happening nearby. The Google Mapplets API will be covered, showing readers how to do such things as annotate maps with markers and respond to user events. The basics of data feeds and formats, APIs, and caching are covered as well.
Who is this book for?
This book is aimed at developers looking to explore Google’s new Mapplet technology. The book will be a great resource for those just getting into Map–based applications and mashups, as well as for seasoned Maps developers looking to reach an extended audience with their mashups on maps.google.com.
Readers of the book should be familiar with JavaScript, basic HTML, and CSS.
About the Apress Practical Series
The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.
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Michael Young
Michael Young is a Technologist in the Research & Development group of The New York Times Company. He is currently focused on building new digital media products and services, primarily in the mobile space.
Michael won the award for “Best Hack” at the Yahoo! BBC Hack Day 2007 (with colleague Nick Bilton) for their project Shifd.com. He has also created numerous Google Maps mashups, including the AP News + Google Maps mashup, http://81nassau.com.
He has a degree in computer science and mathematics from Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR). Michael currently lives in New York City with his wife, Kim.
Michael Purvis
Michael Purvis is a mechatronics engineering student at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is a mostly self-taught programmer. Prior to discovering PHP, he was busy making a LEGO Mindstorms kit play Connect 4. Currently, he maintains an active community site for classmates, built mostly from home-brewed extensions to PunBB and MediaWiki.
He has written about CSS for the Position Is Everything web site, and occasionally participates in the css-discuss mailing list. He particularly enjoys those clever layouts that mix negative margins, relative positioning, and bizarre float tricks to create fiendish, cross-browser, flexible-width concoctions. These and other nontechnical topics are discussed on his weblog at uwmike.com.
Offline, he enjoys cooking, cycling, and social dancing. He has worked for We-Create, Inc. on a number of exciting PHP-based projects and has a strong interest in independent web standards.