{"id":364,"date":"2011-08-03T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinfosearch.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2011-08-03T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T12:02:21","slug":"beginning-google-maps-applications-with-rails-and-ajax-from-novice-to-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinfosearch.com\/2011\/08\/03\/beginning-google-maps-applications-with-rails-and-ajax-from-novice-to-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm, making it fairly trivial for third-party developers to incorporate dynamic mapping services into Web applications. In fact, interest in the Google service is so strong that it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon, along with a number of websites such as http:\/\/www.gmapsmania.com intended to highlight some of the exciting applications developers are building using the mapping API in conjunction with a variety of other data sources.<\/P>
Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer-perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Rails-driven Web applications.<\/P>
Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, readers are shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s TIGER\/Line data and Google’s own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the world.<\/P>
Readers are also guided through various examples demonstrating how to encourage user interaction such as pinpointing map locations, adding comments, and building community-driven maps.<\/P><\/p>\n
Price: <\/b>$34.99<\/p>\n