Beginning Google Maps Applications

Ravi Kumar over at All About Linux has written a review of our book and gives it a rating of “very good”. You can read the whole review for yourself, but here are a few quotes to whet your appetite.
What I really like about this book is instead of jumping into a theoretical discourse, the […]

Yesterday Google Maps Mania announced that New Zealand and Australia now had address searching on maps.google.com. Last night I started drafting a post that suggested that geocoding for these two countries couldn’t be too far behind. Well, before I could even press “publish” Google announced exactly that.
The examples in Chapter 4 will work perfectly well […]

A review of our book has just been posted to Slashdot.org. Thanks! We hope all our new visitors enjoy their time here.
UPDATE: {Cringe} Here comes DIGG! {/Cringe}

We’re having a short contest to give away three (3) copies of Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and AJAX. If you would like a chance to win a copy please fill out the form here. We’ll randomly draw three entries on September 8th, 2006 and email the winners. One entry per person […]

In order to keep our book a reasonable length, we couldn’t possibly use every neat idea or data source we found as an example. We did use the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) database in Chapters 5, 6, and 7. Also, in Chapter 11 we used a wide range of street […]