Название: Beginning Google Maps application with Rails and AJAX
Автор: Andre Lewis, Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, and Cameron Turner
Издательство: Apress
Год издания: 2007
Число страниц: 382
Формат: PDF
Размер: 15.4 Mб
ISBN: 978-1-59059-787-3
Язык: английский
The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0
development paradigm, making it fairly trivial for third-party
developers to incorporate dynamic mapping services into Web
applications. In fact, interest in the Google service is so strong that
it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon, along with a number of
websites such as www.gmapsmania.com intended to highlight some of the
exciting applications developers are building using the mapping API in
conjunction with a variety of other data sources. Beginning Google Maps
Applications with Rails and Ajax is the first book to comprehensively
introduce the service from a developer-perspective, showing readers how
they can integrate mapping features into their Rails-driven Web
applications. Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, readers are
shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census
Bureau’s TIGER/Line data and Google's own geocoding feature to build
comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the
world. Readers are also guided through various examples demonstrating
how to encourage user interaction such as pinpointing map locations,
adding comments, and building community-driven maps.
