Beginning Google Maps API 3

Gabriel Svennerberg

ISBN 10: 1430228024 / ISBN 13: 9781430228028

Published by Apress Jul 2010, 2010

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Neuware - 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. Seller Inventory # 9781430228028

Bibliographic Details

Title: Beginning Google Maps API 3

Publisher: Apress Jul 2010

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Taschenbuch

Condition: Neu

Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis:

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

About the Author:

Gabriel Svennerberg is a usability-oriented web developer from Sweden. He's been working in the web industry for over a decade and is known in the web developer community for evangelizing usability and web standards. He's also known for spreading knowledge about the Google Maps API through his website, In Usability We Trust, which also features articles about usability and other things related to web development. It s found at www.svennerberg.com. At his current job at Saab Security and Defence Solutions (www.saabgroup.com), Gabriel is busy designing and building web applications for situation awareness and crisis management. These applications always incorporate maps in some way and the Google Maps API is one of the map solutions being used. Gabriel lives in V xj , Sweden with his fianc e, Petronella, and their son, Ludvig.