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Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax

From Novice to Professional

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Michael Purvis
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  2. Jeffrey Sambells
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  3. Cameron Turner
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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Your First Google Maps

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introducing Google Maps

      Pages 3-11

    3. Getting Started

      Pages 13-29

    4. Interacting with the User and the Server

      Pages 31-62

    5. Geocoding Addresses

      Pages 63-93

  4. Advanced Map Features and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Advanced Tips and Tricks

      Pages 209-259

    3. Lines, Lengths, and Areas

      Pages 261-284

    4. Advanced Geocoding Topics

      Pages 285-311

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 315-358
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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.

About the authors

Jeffrey Sambells?is a graphic designer and self-taught web applications developer best known for his unique ability to merge the visual world of graphics with the mental realm of code. With a bachelor of technology degree in graphic communications management along with a minor in multimedia, Jeffrey was originally trained for the traditional paper-and-ink printing industry, but he soon realized the world of pixels and code was where his ideas would prosper. In late 1999, he cofounded We-Create, Inc., an Internet software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, which began many long nights of challenging and creative innovation. Currently, as director of research and development for We-Create, Jeffrey is responsible for investigating new and emerging Internet technologies and integrating them using web standards-compliant methods. In late 2005, he also became a Zend Certified Engineer. When not playing at the office, Jeffrey enjoys a variety of hobbies from photography to woodworking. When the opportunity arises, he also enjoys floating in a canoe on the lakes of Algonquin Provincial Park or going on an adventurous, map-free, drive with his wife. Jeffrey also maintains a personal website at JeffreySambells.com, where he shares thoughts, ideas, and opinions about web technologies, photography, design, and more. He lives in Ontario, Canada, eh, with his wife, Stephanie, his daughter, Addison, and their little dog, Milo.

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