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Google Map Hacks: Tips & Tools for Geographic Searching & Remixing
Want to find every pizza place within a 15-mile radius?
Where the dog parks are in a new town? The most central
meeting place for your class, club or group of friends? The
cheapest gas stations on a day-to-day basis? The location of
convicted sex offenders in an area to which you may be
considering moving? The applications,
serendipitous and
serious, seem to be infinite, as developers find ever more
creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images
and underlying API of Google Maps.
Written by Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, authors of the
popular Mapping Hacks, Google Maps Hacks shares dozens of
tricks for combining the capabilities of Google Maps with
your own datasets. Such diverse information as apartment
listings, crime reporting or flight routes can be integrated
with Google's satellite imagery in creative ways, to yield
new and useful applications.
The authors begin with a complete introduction to the
"standard" features of Google Maps. The adventure continues
with 60 useful and interesting mapping projects that
demonstrate ways developers have added their own features to
the maps. After that's given you ideas of your own, you
learn to apply the techniques and tools to add your own data
to customize and manipulate Google Maps. Even Google seems
to be tacitly blessing what might be seen as unauthorized
use, but maybe they just know a good thing when they see
one.
With the tricks and techniques you'll learn from Google Maps
Hacks, you'll be able to adapt Google's satellite map
feature to create interactive maps for personal and
commercial applications for businesses ranging from real
estate to package delivery to home services, transportation
and more. Includes a foreword by Google Maps tech leads,
Jens and Lars Rasmussen.
Foreword
Credits
Preface
Chapter 1. You Are Here: Introducing Google Maps
1. Get Around http://maps.google.com
2. Find Yourself (and Others) on Google Maps
3. Navigate the World in Your Web Browser
4. Get the Bird's-Eye View
5. Driven to a Better User Interface
6. Share Google Maps
7. Inside Google Maps URLs
8. Generate Links to Google Maps in a Spreadsheet
9. Use del.icio.us to Keep Up with Google Maps
Chapter 2. Introducing the Google Maps API
10. Add a Google Map to Your Web Site
11. Where Did the User Click?
12. How Far Is That? Go Beyond Driving Directions
13. Create a Route with a Click (or Two)
14. Create Custom Map Markers
15. Map a Slideshow of Your Travels
16. How Big Is the World?
Chapter 3. Mashing Up Google Maps
17. Map the News
18. Examine Patterns of Criminal Activity
19. Map Local Weather Conditions
20. Track Official Storm Reporting
21. Track the International Space Station
22. Witness the Effects of a Nuclear Explosion
23. Find a Place to Live
24. Search for Events by Location
25. Track Your UPS Packages
26. Follow Your Packets Across the Internet
27. Add Google Maps to Any Web Site
28. How Big Is That, Exactly?
Chapter 4. On the Road with Google Maps
29. Find the Best Gasoline Prices
30. Stay Out of Traffic Jams
31. Navigate Public Transportation
32. Locate a Phone Number
33. Why Your Cell Phone Doesn't Work There
34. Publish Your Own Hiking Trail Maps
35. Load Driving Directions into Your GPS
36. Get Driving Directions for More Than Two Locations
37. View Your GPS Tracklogs in Google Maps
38. Map Your Wardriving Expeditions
39. Track Your Every Move with Google Earth
40. The Ghost in Google Ride Finder
41. How Google Maps Got Me Out of a Traffic Ticket
Chapter 5. Google Maps in Words and Pictures
42. Get More out of What You Read
43. Don't Believe Everything You Read on a Map
44. You Got Your A9 Local in My Google Maps!
45. Share Pictures with Your Community
46. Browse Photography by Shooting Location
47. Geotag Your Own Photos on Flickr
48. Tell Your Community's Story
49. Generate Geocoded RSS from Any Google Map
50. Geoblog with Google Maps in Thingster
Chapter 6. API Tips and Tricks
51. Make a Fullscreen Map the Right Way
52. Put a Map and HTML into Your Info Windows
53. Add Flash Applets to Your Google Maps
54. Add a Nicer Info Window to Your Map with TLabel
55. Put Photographs on Your Google Maps
56. Pin Your Own Maps to Google Maps with TPhoto
57. Do a Local Zoom with GxMagnifier
58. Find the Right Zoom Level
59. Show Lots of Stuff-Quickly
60. Make Things Happen When the Map Moves
61. Use the Right Developer's Key Automatically
Chapter 7. Extreme Google Maps Hacks
62. Find the Latitude and Longitude of a Street Address
63. Read and Write Markers from a MySQL Database
64. Build Custom Icons on the Fly
65. Add More Imagery with a WMS Interface
66. Add Your Own Custom Map
67. Serve Custom Map Imagery
68. Automatically Cut and Name Custom Map Tiles
69. Cluster Markers at High Zoom Levels
70. Will the Kids Barf? (and Other Cool Ways to Use Google Maps)
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