Synopses & Reviews
Google has a new release of version 3 for the Google Maps API. While its JavaScript API still looks similar to previous versions of the Google Maps API, much has changed under the hood with version 3, which has been designed to load fast, especially on today's mobile browsers and platforms, such as Android-based devices and the iPhone.
Given the debut of the Google Maps API 3, authors Mike Purvis and Victor Sumner felt it was time for an update of their popular Beginning Google Maps Applications. In this important second edition, they've created a comprehensive introduction to Google Maps API 3, including the following: A focus on guiding you beyond simple tasks to the specifics of common and interesting projects Plot points and other geometry, both from an internal source and a public one like www.data.gov How to deal with data larger than 100 points (both the technical hurdles and the UI issues) What you'll learn The fundamentals of the new Google Maps API 3, moving quickly into territory that many readers would have difficulty with when working alone or from Internet tutorials How to access Google Maps and GIS data with Ajax/JavaScript How to deal with lots of data as you move from toy to real-world applications How to develop user interfaces for big data sets How to render tiles with data How to use various web services with Google Maps effectively How to integrate what you learn with a capstone case study How to deploy on today's mobile platforms like Android and the iPhone, as well as desktops and more Who is this book for?
This book could be enjoyed by a complete beginner, but the intended audience is a person with some exposure to programming, especially in languages like C]+, Java, and PHP. An understanding of HTML and basic control flow is assumed, but the aspects of JavaScript relevant to the topics will receive coverage in sidebars.
Synopsis
About the Technical Reviewer ? Rob Drimmie is a software developer with a bias toward web-based applications. The best things about him are his wife and children. He likes pho and hamburgers but has never eaten both at the same sitting. xiv ? INTRODUCTION Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to thank my beloved fiancee, Petronella Frisk, for putting up with me spending evenings and weekends writing this book. Thank you for your patience and support I couldn t have done it without you Many thanks to Tom Skinner for helping me with the initial reviews of the chapters and with testing the examples. Your help has been immensly valuable to me. If not for you, the book would have been a lot poorer. I would also like to thank you for your words of encouragement at the times when I needed it the most. Also thanks to Charlie Irish, who helped proofread Chapter 5, before I used it as a beta chapter. My former college Chris Jangelov has been a source of inspiration over the years. I probably owe it to him that I entered into the world of web standards, usability, and blogging in the first place. Thank you, Chris, for always having new ideas and being encouraging."
Synopsis
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 What you?ll learn Building reliable Google Maps web applications How to transfer from version 2 to version 3 of the API Best practices using HTML/CSS/JavaScript Dealing with large amounts of map markers How to look up addresses and coordinates using GeoCoding and reversed GeoCoding Who this book is for
Web designers/web developers with a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, as well as people with knowledge of the old Google Maps API that needs help to easily transfer to the new API. And, this book is for anyone interested in learning how to integrate Google Maps on their web page. Table of Contents Introducing the Google Maps API Transferring from Version 2 to 3 Creating Your First Map Taking the Map Further with MapOptions X Marks the Spot Marker Icons InfoWindow Tips and Tricks Creating Polylines and Polygons Dealing with Massive Numbers of Markers Location, Location, Location