Beginning Google Maps Applications With Rails And Ajax: From Novice to Professional

by Lewis, Andre

• ISBN13: 9781590597873
• ISBN10: 1590597877
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-26
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing you how you can integrate mapping features into your Rails-driven web applications. Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, you'll learn how to draw from a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data and Google's own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the world. The book also steers you through various examples that show how to encourage user interaction such as through pinpointing map locations, adding comments, and building community-driven maps.

Table of Contents

Google maps and rails	p. 3
Getting started	p. 13
Interacting with the user and the server	p. 33
Geocoding addresses	p. 69
Manipulating third-party data	p. 99
Improving the user interface	p. 123
Optimizing and scaling for large data sets	p. 147
What's next for the Google maps API?	p. 197
Advanced tips and tricks	p. 207
Lines, lengths, and areas	p. 261
Advanced geocoding topics	p. 287
Finding the data you want	p. 315
Google maps API	p. 323
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