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

by Michael Purvis, Andre Lewis, Cameron Turner, et al.

Book Overview

The Google Maps API is a showcase example of the Web 2.0 development paradigm, designed to be invitingly simple for third-party developers to incorporate dynamic mapping services into Web applications. Interest in Google Maps is so strong that it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon, along with websites such as gmapsmania.com, which highlights some exciting applications using the mapping API in conjunction with a variety of other data sources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590597877
• ISBN13: 9781590597873
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.2"