Beginning Google Maps Applications

One thing every Maps developer notices eventually, is that the API’s imagery doesn’t exactly match that which is on Google Maps itself.
Check out the two maps of uptown Waterloo, below. The image on the left is a shot of the API, while the one on the right is from Google Maps. Not only is the […]

In Chapter 6 of the book, we showed you one way of creating a loading message for your users. The method demonstrated followed this basic pattern:

Serve the user an HTML page with the loading message in it,
Have an onLoad event call the Maps API’s initialization, and add all the markers to the map, and then
Remove […]