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Google Maps Hacks, 1st Edition By Rich Gibson, Schuyler Erle The nearest pizza, the cheapest gas, the best meeting place for a group-Google Maps Hacks shows you creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps for applications serendipitous or serious. Written by Sch... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: January 2006
MapsGL:Google Maps on HTML5: Where Conference 2012 - O'Reilly Conferences, ... By Evan Parker MapsGL is Google Maps + WebGL. This talk will discuss the technology behind MapsGL. Publish Date: April 02, 2012
Google Launches Maps Data API - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest The crowd at Where 2.0 was expecting an API announcement and Google delivered one. Lior Ron and Steve Lee announced their Maps Data API, a service for hosting geodata. As they describe it on the site: The Google Maps Data API allows client applications to view, store and update map data in the form of Google Data API feeds using a data model of features (placemarks, lines and shapes) and maps (collections of features). Publish Date: May 20, 2009
Before and After Shots of Google's Iran Maps - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest There many places in the world where it is not possible for larger companies to map them. These can be for economic reasons as is the case for Black Rock City (the temporary 40,000 person home for Burning Man). Or for political reasons as is the case for Iran and countries such as China. As I mentioned the other day Google greatly improved their map coverage of Iran via user contributions through their Mapmaker program. Publish Date: June 22, 2009
To Google or Not to Google? Cost/Benefit Analysis Of Rolling Your Own Maps: ... By Sebastian Delmont We've had it easy for a long while, with Google offering a large list of mapping and geolocation services pretty much for free, pretty much for everybody. But now they've placed a price tag on those services, which means it's time to decide if the price is fair. Publish Date: April 02, 2012
Map Scripting 101, 1st Edition By Adam DuVander Map Scripting 101 uses a project-based approach to teach you how to create useful and fun online map mashups like weather maps and local concert trackers.... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: August 2010
Google Releases YouTube-Style Embedded Maps - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest View Larger Map As rumored last week, Google Maps has released a feature that lets you easily embed a Google Map on any web page (see above, I hope) that would normally accept YouTube Videos or an iframe. Be prepared to see maps on even more pages as they are now very accessible. It's very simple to use. Create... Publish Date: August 21, 2007
Google To Release Embeddable Maps - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest Over on CNet they have the scoop on an upcoming cool Google Maps feature. Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video. No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet... Publish Date: August 15, 2007
Where 2.0: Google Releases Mapplets - Gadgets for Maps - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest Google has just released a preview of Mapplets, essentially gadgets for their maps. In practical terms it allows me to see Google trends on a map, check local gas prices, consume georss feeds, or see a heatmap visualization of Zuerich Travel times. They can be found at http://maps.google.com/preview. You can find about 30 Mapplets to add via their content... Publish Date: May 29, 2007
Startup Beats Google Maps on its Home Turf - O'Reilly Radar By Nat Torkington Google Maps doesn't cover Australia, which is ironic because a lot of the Google Maps team are based in Sydney (including Lars Rasmussen, who wrote the first version of Google Maps and who spoke at Where 2.0 last year). Two weeks ago, ZoomIn Australia quietly launched, beating Google Maps to the online mapping of their own offices. Sweet! The ZoomIn... Publish Date: May 04, 2006
Google Maps Are Now Draggable - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest Google has just given the functionality of their online Maps product a real boost. You can now drag a route on a map to change the streets it takes. They've also added the ability to add a destination anywhere on a map just by right-clicking or by dragging an existing place marker to a new location. What does this... Publish Date: June 28, 2007
Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area. After the data has been uploaded and then verified against other participant's data it becomes a part of the map. The process is very reminiscent of what Open Street Map, the community map-building project, has been doing. The biggest difference... Publish Date: August 02, 2007
By Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain Now that new features and services such as Google Maps, Google Talk, and Google Desktop have been added to the expanding Google universe, we've made the third edition of this bestseller into an infinitely more useful book for this powerful search eng... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: August 2006 Other Editions: 1st Edition, 2nd Edition
HTML5: Advanced data visualization with Google Maps API: Where Conference ... By Josh Livni, Brendan Kenny HTML5 and recent browser enhancements have paved the way for more robust cartography and data visualization in the client. We'll show you how this creates new opportunities for interacting with large datasets in real-time, general bottlenecks and solutions, as well as new technologies and techniques you can take advantage of. Publish Date: April 02, 2012
Want a Map of Tehran? Use Open Street Map or Google - O'Reilly Radar By Brady Forrest All eyes are on Tehran right now. As the center of the Iranian election protests the city has become increasingly important to websites this week. To keep their site up-to-date with this latest crisis area Flickr switched out the Yahoo road Map with Open Street Map. When I heard about this I wondered how other major mapping sites faired. Publish Date: June 17, 2009
Google Map-grab - O'Reilly Radar By Nikolaj Nyholm On the Geowanking mailing list Ben Discoe has forwarded an email conversation with DigitalGlobe, operators of the QuickBird hi-resolution (0.61 meter) satellite. Apparently, portions of DigitalGlobe's imagery data has been licensed by Google for exclusive use in Google Earth/Maps. As Microsoft's acquisition of Vexcel earlier this year also confirms, this is unlikely to be the only or last case of... Publish Date: August 06, 2006
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