2007 February at Beginning Google Maps Applications

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Rails Edition Contest!

2 Comments Published by Cam February 26th, 2007 in The Book

Andre Lewis has been hard at work since September 2006 translating and rewriting the PHP-centric edition of our Beginning Google Maps Applications book into Ruby on RAILS — and we’re giving away 3 4 copies over the next 3 weeks!
If you’re interested in entering the contest please simply visit http://googlemapsbook.com/contest and fill out the form. […]

GeoKit: A Rails Plugin for Map Applications

4 Comments Published by Cam February 17th, 2007 in Ruby on Rails, The Book

Andre Lewis has been hard at work writing our new sister book Beginning Google Maps with RAILS and Ajax. It’s due back from the printers in about a week, so on the eve of its release he has also released GeoKit for Rails along with Bill Eisenhauer. Bill also has a few examples on his […]

Chapter 3 encoding issues

14 Comments Published by Jeffrey February 9th, 2007 in The Book

UPDATE: added encoding fix.
A few savvy readers have pointed out an issue with the final map in Chapter 3. The example in the book wasn’t complete and does require additional work to be a fully functional but…In the scripts that store the information to the server I was simply adding an entry to an XML […]