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Add to your website's functionality by utilizing Google Maps' power

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Day by day, the use of location data is becoming more and more popular, and Google is one of the main game changers in this area. The Google Maps JavaScript API is one of the most functional and robust mapping APIs used among Geo developers. With Google Maps, you can build location-based apps, maps for mobile apps, visualize geospatial data, and customize your own maps.Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step recipes that will help you to unleash the capabilities of the Google Maps JavaScript API in conjunction with open source or commercial GIS servers and services through a number of practical examples of real world scenarios. This book begins by covering the essentials of including simple maps for Web and mobile, adding vector and raster layers, styling your own base maps, creating your own controls and responding to events, and including your own events.You will learn how to integrate open source or commercial GIS servers and services including ArcGIS Server, GeoServer, CartoDB, Fusion Tables, and Google Maps Engine with the Google Maps JavaScript API. You will also extend the Google Maps JavaScript API to push its capabilities to the limit with additional libraries and services including geometry, AdSense, geocoding, directions, and StreetView.This book covers everything you need to know about creating a web map or GIS applications using the Google Maps JavaScript API on multiple platforms.

Who is this book for?

Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook is for developers who wish to learn how to do anything from adding a simple embedded map to a website to developing complex GIS applications with the Google Maps JavaScript API. It is targeted at JavaScript developers who know how to get by but who are also seeking the immediacy of recipe-based advice.

What you will learn

Create simple maps and display them on mobile devices

Style your own base maps

Add your own tile maps as base maps or overlays

Show vector layers on base maps in various types such as points, polylines or polygons

Parse various vector formats such as KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON, WKT, and so on

Create a custom UI and customize your own ways to control it

Respond to various events including mobile gestures

Add additional libraries to extend the capabilities of the API

Work with Google Services for geocoding, directions, StreetView, and so on

Integrate open source or commercial GIS servers or services

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Tanongkiet Upanno Jun 18, 2015

I love this kind of IT book. Since it is not only explain the application features by example but also explain each coding in the example.

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VitoshAcademy May 04, 2014

[Disclosure - I have a blog, reviewing books and I write reviews there - [...] I have also written three articles, concerning some of the code in the book there.I was not asked by the authors or anyone to review the book, I just needed a book, concerning Google Maps API and this one was quite a good match. At lеast prior to reading the book I had almost no experience with Java Script]What this book has to offer to a reader who has almost NO experience with Java Script (like me, for example)? Actually, pretty much EVERYTHING you need to know. It starts with the ABC of Java Script and Google API, giving you one really simple example, how to build a map. In the next examples, everything build upon this first example is explained in huge details. Sometimes, I think that the authors go to much into details, but this is probably a good thing! :)What I liked - the book is really a "CookBook" - you do not need to read it page by page, chapter by chapter, but you can simply read the first chapter and the introduction and then you may go to any page, to any recipe and use it as a pro :) This is really a big plus for beginners, who do not have full 3 days to read it properly and test the code in it.What you should do after buying the book - the examples are quite well built, but they will not function on your pc immediately - that is because the google api code, which has some limitations. Thus you should go and make your own account at code.google.com and change the code from the book at that place. Fortunately, the procedure is well described.What is inside? Pretty much anything a beginner in Google API & Java Script would dream about. The table of contents is really well composed for beginners.So, my last word is the following - if you are a beginner in either Java Script or Google API - go for the book, it is suited for you! No specific pre-knowledge is required, indeed (probably, just some really basic knowledge in programming)! If you are wondering whether this book is for you, you may go to the book's website and browse the examples, which are generously provided there - at the site of the book, go to the support tab and click "Download Now". Then the code is fully at your disposal!Thank you for reading the review! I hope you have enjoyed it!Regards,vitoshacademy.com

ervin kenan aydin Jan 31, 2014

I have the Kindle Version of this book. It has easy to understand examples and clear explanations. I loved it!

Cristian Scutaru Sep 16, 2014

In the true spirit of a "cookbook" publication, many many samples for the most recent Google Maps API.

Fernando Doglio Mar 12, 2014

Disclosure: I was asked by the publisher to review this book.The book“Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook” is relatively a short book, it’s full of, like the name of the book suggests, recipes to work with the Google Maps API.Both authors, Alper Dincer and Balkan Uraz share a MS degree in Geographical Sciences and have over 10 years of experience working on Geographic Information Systems. So it’s safe to say they know their GIS. That being said, this is a programming cookbook, so the quality of the recipes is not assured.The badLet’s first start with the bad, or the not-so-good to be honest.Like I said before, the book’s authors are experts when it comes to Geographical Systems, and have worked in several Geo related projects over the last 10 years, but it shows that they are not experienced programmers.The recipes do their work, don’t get me wrong, but their code is not the best, they just don’t follow regular best practices.The entire book could’ve been thought out to end up developing a small framework to work with Google Maps API. Instead, the recepies’ code are only related to that recepie’s task instead. Leaving the reader with a bunch of individual examples and a lot of repeated code.The other programming related issue I had with this book, was that the authors kept talking about creating classes. If you’ve used JavaScript for a while, you’d know that that’s not entirely right, actually, it’s pretty misleading to the less versed developer. I know this isn’t a JavaScript-heavy book or anything like that, but they could’ve at least bothered to get the names right.The goodYeap, that’s right, that’s about all that really “bothered” me from the book. To be honest, this book is a really useful reference manual.It’s quite easy to read, each example is easily understood and very well explained. You’ll probably find yourself coming back to it, just to quickly check how something was done.Call me skeptic, but I had my doubts about the cookbook format of it. I was afraid that the lack of technical depth about the Google Maps API would hurt and hinder my learning. On the contrary, this gave me a super quick, yet complete, overview of what I could possibly accomplish with this powerful API.I had already done some easy and mid-level stuff with the API but by the end of the book, I had learned how to fully customize the map, load external data and use the services provided by the API.Would I recommend it?Yes I would, if you’re just starting, get the book and learn all you can eventually accomplish with it. If you’ve already worked with the API, get it anyways, you’ll end up learning a few tricks on the way.

Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook: This book will help you use the amazing resource that is Google Maps to your own ends. From showing maps on mobiles to creating GIS applications, this lively, recipe-packed guide is all you need.

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