Google Maps makes Web-based mapping fun, and opens up an incredible variety of opportunities for developers. This resource shows developers how to add their own functionality to Google Maps.

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps explores the mundane act of navigating cities in the age of digital mapping infrastructures. Noone follows the frictions routing through Google Maps’ categorising and classifying of spatial information. Complicating the assumption that digital maps distort a sense of direction, Noone argues that Google Maps’ location awareness does more than just organise and orient a representation of space—it also organises and orients imaginaries of publicness, selfsufficiency, legibility, and error. At the same time, Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps helps to animate the ordinary ways people are challenging and refusing Google Maps’ vision of the world. Drawing on an arts-based field study spanning the streets of London, New York, London, Toronto, and Amsterdam, Noone’s encounters of "asking for directions" open up lines of inquiry and spatial scores that cut through Google‘s universal mapping project. Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps will be essential reading for information studies and media studies scholars and students with an interest in embodied information practices, critical information studies, and critical data studies. The book will also appeal to an urban studies audience engaged in work on the digital city and the datafication of urban environments.

Google Maps API Cookbook follows a fast-paced, high-level, structured cookbook approach, with minimal theory and an abundance of practical, real-world examples explained in a thorough yet concise manner to help you learn quickly and efficiently. Google Maps API Cookbook is for developers who wish to learn how to do anything from adding a simple embedded map to a website to developing complex GIS applications with the Google Maps JavaScript API. It is targeted at JavaScript developers who know how to get by but who are also seeking the immediacy of recipe-based advice.

Connect your enterprise to a wide range of SaaS platforms, Open APIs, and social networks quickly and without difficulty. Through step-by-step instructions and numerous real-world examples, this concise guide shows you how to seamlessly integrate the external services you need with Mule ESB and its powerful Cloud Connect toolset. You’ll learn how to use service-specific connectors for many popular APIs—including Salesforce, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Twilio—through easy-to-learn abstractions. If Mule doesn’t have a connector for the resource you need, you’ll learn how to build your own. You’ll discover how easy it is to reach beyond the enterprise firewall for a host of Internet resources. Discover the advantages of using Mule Cloud Connect over typical web service clients and protocols Learn how Cloud Connectors eliminate the need to understand the underlying API of each service Get started with the latest real-time technologies, including REST, WebHooks, and Streaming APIs Integrate OAuth secure APIs and understand their role in authorization and information sharing Delve into advanced topics such as multi-tenancy and connection management Build your own custom connectors with the Mule DevKit

This is the eBook version of the printed book. Using Google™ Maps and Google Earth is more than just a book: it’s the fastest, easiest way to master Google’s amazing mapping applications! Don’t just “read” about it: see it, hear it, live it, with step-by-step screencasts and expert audio tips. Discover how to map your favorite places with Google Maps…see actual locations with Street View…generate driving, walking, and public transit directions…find and learn more about businesses…create and share custom maps and mashups…use Google Maps on iPhone…navigate Google Earth to find locations fast…create life-like Google Earth roadmaps, and tour your route…even explore Google Sky, Google Moon, and Google Earth’s Flight Simulator! Exclusive online Show Me video walks through tasks you’ve just got to see…Tell Me More audio delivers practical, “straight from the experts” insights…Point-Counterpoint audio compares alternative solutions—so you can pick the one that’s best for you. It’s all the help you’ll ever need…where you want it, when you want it!

Create custom applications with the Google Maps API Featuring step-by-step examples, this practical resource gets you started programming the Google Maps API with JavaScript in no time. Learn how to embed maps on web pages, annotate the embedded maps with your data, generate KML files to store and reuse your map data, and enable client applications to request spatial data through web services. Google Maps: Power Tools for Maximizing the API explains techniques for visualizing masses of data and animating multiple items on the map. You’ll also find out how to embed Google maps in desktop applications to combine the richness of the Windows interface with the unique features of the API. You can use the numerous samples included throughout this hands-on guide as your starting point for building customized applications. Create map-enabled web pages with a custom look Learn the JavaScript skills required to exploit the Google Maps API Create highly interactive interfaces for mapping applications Embed maps in desktop applications written in .NET Annotate maps with labels, markers, and shapes Understand geodesic paths and shapes and perform geodesic calculations Store geographical data in KML format Add GIS features to mapping applications Store large sets of geography data in databases and perform advanced spatial queries Use web services to request spatial data from within your script on demand Automate the generation of standalone web pages with annotated maps Use the Geocoding and Directions APIs Visualize large data sets using symbols and heatmaps Animate items on a map Bonus online content includes: A tutorial on The SQL Spatial application A bonus chapter on animating multiple airplanes Three appendices: debugging scripts in the browser; scalable vector graphics; and applying custom styles

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. In fact, interest in the Google service is so strong that it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon. This is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Web applications. Proceeding far beyond creating a simplistic map display, readers are shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as geocode.us and the U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line data to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping any location in North America.

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

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential resource for modern JavaScript programming. This completely updated second edition covers everything you need to know to get up-to-speed with JavaScript development and add dynamic enhancements to web pages, right from the basics. As well as focusing on client-side JavaScript, you will also learn how to work with the Browser Object Model, the Document Object Model (DOM), how to use XML and JSON as well as communicate with service side scripts such as PHP. Find out how to: Construct good JavaScript syntax following modern coding practices Use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data Dynamically manipulate markup, validate forms and deal with images Debug applications using features inside the browser JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax will take you from being a JavaScript novice to work freely with this important technology - begin your JavaScript journey today! What you’ll learn What functions, variables, events and objects are and how to use them. How build a site that will still work in the case that JavaScript is turned off. How to access and update part of the page using code. How to use JavaScript to communicate with the server and retrieve data. How to use JavaScript to for form validation and user feedback. How to use Third-Party Libraries like jQuery. Who this book is for Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is for the person who has a good grasp of HTML and CSS but wants to add JavaScript to their skillset. If you want to learn some basic programming concepts, have experience but need help updating your skills, or you’re coming from another language, Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax can help. Table of Contents Getting Started with JavaScript Data and Decisions From DHTML to DOM Scripting HTML5 and JavaScript Presentation and Behavior (CSS and Event Handling) Common Uses of JavaScript: Image and Windows JavaScript and User Integration: Navigation and Forms Back-End Interaction with Ajax and Node.js Data Validation Techniques Modern JavaScript Case Study: A Dynamic Gallery Using Third-Party JavaScript Appendix A: Debugging JavaScript

The book is written for PHP developers who wish to learn how to use MVC for application development, using CodeIgniter. No experience of CodeIgniter would be necessary, as this book is for beginning MVC development.This book is written for PHP developers who wish to learn how to use the CodeIgniterMVC framework for application development. No experience of CodeIgniteris necessary, as this book is for beginning MVC development.