Tài liệu Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets

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Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets
Dear Reader,
Mashups, the mixing together of multiple data sources in a single application, have
exploded across the Web, ushering in a parade of innovative tools and applications. With
content providers exposing more and more of their data through feeds and APIs and with
companies like Google creating great tools such as Google Maps and Mapplets, you now
have the ability to create applications that weren’t possible a few years (and sometimes
even months) ago it’s a great time to be a developer!
I wrote Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets to help show how simple it can be to
build map-based applications using multiple data sources and APIs.
This book will introduce you to the Google Mapplets API, showing you the key basics such as
how to annotate maps with markers and how to respond to user events. After learning about the
Mapplet API, you will dive right in to creating a map-based mashup by “mashing up”
Tourfilter’s concert XML feeds, Eventful’s venue search API, and Google Mapplets. In the end,
you’ll know how to build the server and mapping code for a mashup that dynamically maps
Tourfilter concerts for more than 60 cities on a Google Mapplet.
I hope you take what you learn from this book and apply it to your own ideas to create the next
round of innovative mashups.
Be creative and build something beautiful!
Michael Young
Creative Technologist
New York Times Company, Research and Development