Beginning Google Maps mashups with mapplets, KML and GeoRSS
Subtitle: from novice to professional
By: Sterling Udell.
Series: The expert's voice in web development; Expert's voice in Web development
Publisher: Apress; Distributed by Springer-Verlag New York
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781430216209
Subjects: Google Maps; Google Earth; Geographic information systems; KML (Document markup language); Information visualization; Internet programming
Notes: Includes index.

"Companion ebook available"--Spine.

"Learn how to integrate Google's maps into your own web site, and (with mapplets) how to integrate your site into Google Maps"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: The Geoweb and the Google Maps API. Introduction to the geoweb; title: Getting started with the maps API; title: Consuming GeoXML in the maps API; title: Building out your map page; title: Your map and the real world. Part 2: Mashing up Google Maps with mapplets. Introduction to mapplets; title: Creating a mapplet; title: Taking mapplets further. Part 3: Ready for the big leagues. Intermediate API topics; title: Producing geodata; title: Case study : satellite-friendly campground directory.