Beginning Google Maps API 3 Learn how to build lightning fast mapping applications with the latest, totally remade, version of the google maps api

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

There is a new open source Google Maps API version 3. Google Maps API 3 is important as it allows developers and readers of this book to develop and deploy Maps ideally for today's Android, iPhone and more as well as the desktop as usual. Given this, the popular Beginning Google Maps Applications by Mike Purvis and Victor Sumner is updating to Second Edition, and should be first or one of the first books in market to cover new Google Maps API 3. Also, Apress with this book will likely be first to market as well to cover Google Maps using a basic introductory, beginning approach, unique to Hacks and Hacking approaches.

Introducing the Google Maps API.- Transferring from Version 2 to 3.- Creating Your First Map.- Taking the Map Further with MapOptions.- X Marks the Spot.- Marker Icons.- InfoWindow Tips and Tricks.- Creating Polylines and Polygons.- Dealing with Massive Numbers of Markers.- Location, Location, Location.

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. It 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 V xj , Sweden with his fianc e, Petronella, and their son, Ludvig.