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Google Hacks: Build Your Own Google Map

PublisherOReilly Media
Format942.6KB PDFDate added01 Aug 2006
Topics Search Strategies, Web Development and Design, Application Development
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One look at the Google Maps API documentation (http://www.google.com/ apis/maps/) can send otherwise sane web developers running in the other direction. The Maps API uses JavaScript, a language that can be confusing even for seasoned developers. The API also needs longitude and latitude coordinates for every marker one wants to add to the map, but the API doesn't provide any type of geocoding service that turns addresses or place names into coordinates. The Google Maps API was definitely built by engineers for engineers, and it requires a bit of study before one can start making their own maps. However, there are some ways to cheat the system and put together the own map in just a few minutes.

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