Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

  • By: Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner
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Product Description

There is much to like about this book. The explanations are straightforward, the code is readable, the examples are relevant, and the writing style is approachable.

— Michael J. Ross, Web developer/Slashdot contributor

Until recently, building interactive web-based mapping applications has been a cumbersome affair. This changed when Google released its powerful Maps API. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax was written to help you take advantage of this technology in your own endeavorswhether you're an enthusiast playing for fun or a professional building for profit. This book covers version 2 of the API, including Google's new Geocoding service.

Authors Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, and Michael Purvis get rolling with examples that require hardly any code at all, but you'll quickly become acquainted with many facets of the Maps API. They demonstrate powerful methods for simultaneously plotting large data sets, creating your own map overlays, and harvesting and geocoding sets of addresses. You'll see how to set up alternative tile sets and where to access imagery to use for them. The authors even show you how to build your own geocoder from scratch, for those high-volume batch jobs.

As well as providing hands-on examples of real mapping projects, this book supplies a complete reference for the Maps API, along with the relevant aspects of JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL. Visit the authors' website for additional tips and advice.

Product Information

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Number of Pages: 384
  • Publisher: Apress
  • Publication Date: 2006-08-14
  • Edition: 1
  • EAN: N/A
  • ISBN: N/A

Customer Reviews

  • Must buy
    If you are going to get one book to learn or improve your Google Maps skill, this is the book. This very well organized book introduces you the basics and then moves on some advance staff that you have to learn if you want to develop serious Google Maps application.
  • From a Web Programing Instructors point of View
    Wow and Kool are the first words that come to mind after reading just the Into and Chapter 1. As a Web Programming Instructor, I am always searching for easy ways to get my students motivated.
  • Very clear and focused in real solutions
    This book is very well written. Very concise, clear and focused in the real world problems and solutions. Following the advices and codes of the book, you will can afford most of your google maps projects knowing exactly what to do, and how to do it.
  • Excellent Intro to Google Maps
    Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax, provides a very easy to understand clear path for getting started with Google Maps. As a PHP developer, (not as much javascript), the book shows an intelligent and useful approach to working with client side scripting and document objects.
  • missing code, examples not completely laid out
    I am a fairly inexperienced, self taught programmer. I bought the book partly due to the fact that it had "beginning" in the title. The code that is used in the book is not laid out very well.