Feb 6, 2007
Getting the most from Google Maps…
Andre Lewis has just written a book for Apress, ‘Google Maps with Rails and Ajax: from Novice to Professional’ (or something very similar). He presented some of the discoveries he made whilst writing the book at the Googleplex just before Christmas. Fortunately, Google have just stumped up $2 billion to make videos available online, so you can view his presentation here…Ruby And Google.
I really liked the video, he touches on some of the functionality not available with the Google Maps API ‘out of the box’, namely…
- How to ‘display’ thousands of markers on the same map
- How to build your own geo-coder
- How to build you own custom ‘Zoom In’ control for Google Maps
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