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Beginning Google Maps API 3

AUTHOR Svennerberg, Gabriel
PUBLISHER Apress (07/27/2010)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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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
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ISBN-13: 9781430228028
ISBN-10: 1430228024
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0002
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Page Count: 328
Carton Quantity: 13
Product Dimensions: 7.52 x 0.81 x 9.28 inches
Weight: 1.24 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Index, Price on Product, Maps, Table of Contents, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General
Computers | Internet - Web Programming
Dewey Decimal: 910.285
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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
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Author: Svennerberg, Gabriel
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. ItA[a¬a[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 Vaxjo, Sweden with his fiancee Petronella and their son Ludvig.

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