Google Maps API, V2: Adding Where To Your Applications

Davis S.

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Table of contents :
Google Maps……Page 5
A Brief History……Page 6
Here’s the Game Plan……Page 7
The Simple Map……Page 9
Adding navigation components……Page 11
Setting the initial map type……Page 12
Creating a Point and an Info Window……Page 13
Map Controls……Page 16
AJAX……Page 17
GMap2……Page 18
GLatLng……Page 19
GLatLngBounds……Page 20
Zooming……Page 24
Changing the Map Type……Page 26
Putting it all together……Page 27
GIcon……Page 29
Info Windows……Page 34
GPolyline……Page 39
GEvent……Page 43
GMap Events……Page 46
GMarker Events……Page 48
Simple Examples……Page 49
A Real-World Example……Page 52
DHTML and AJAX……Page 63
GXmlHttp……Page 64
Geocoder Web Services……Page 65
Revisiting the Real-World Example……Page 68
Where do we go from here?……Page 73