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Presents a guide to Google Maps API, demonstrating such tasks as plotting large data sets, creating map overlays, geocoding sets of addresses, and building a geocoder.
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After Google Maps was released in 2005, some users discovered that by using unofficial "hacks," the free online mapping service could be manipulated to create custom applications. For example, the Global Sightseeing website allows visitors to suggest natural and manmade landmarks to be noted on the satellite map. With the release of the Google Maps API, the company offers everyman the tools to create their own mapping applications using JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL. Purvis et al. offer a primer in the new software, taking the reader from the simplest, non-code tasks to advanced geocoding techniques. Appendices explain the methods, classes, constants, and objects available through the Google Maps API as of version 2.58. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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