Beginning Google Maps Applications

As of this month (February 2010), GoogleMapsBook.com will be converted into a static HTML archive and be completely decoupled from PHP and Wordpress.
Four years on and the book is still selling really, really well (THANK YOU ALL!), but it’s become obvious that this site and the book are only useful as v2 references. With the […]

One of the most frequent questions we get via email is “Your book is two years old. Is it any good now?” While only you can answer that question, we certainly think so. When we set out to write the book we put a lot of effort into the fundamentals of mapping. We covered the […]

I thought I’d share this with anyone who hasn’t received it yet… Another example of what you could do with the maps interface and an alternative tile set like Jeff’s blue-marble map.
Starting today, astronomy enthusiasts can now view imagery of millions
of celestial objects online - without downloading software.
Google Sky brings the imagery and functionality of […]

Amy writes “We just posted an article Top 50 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google Maps. I thought I’d bring it to your attention just in case you think your readers would find it interesting.”
Indeed. Some of this will be well known to our readers, however our newer mashup friends might find […]

In the last few weeks we’ve seen an explosion of people complaining about the lack of asinh() on the Windows version of PHP. We use the asinh() function extensively in Chapter 7 for the custom tile overlays. Admittedly, we didn’t test any of the code against windows versions of PHP (we’re LAMP folks), so until […]