Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

Book Description

Over 50 recipes to help you create web maps and GIS web applications using the Google Maps JavaScript API

Overview

• Add to your website’s functionality by utilizing Google Maps’ power
• Full of code examples and screenshots for practical and efficient learning
• Empowers you to build your own mapping application from the ground up

In Detail

Day by day, the use of location data is becoming more and more popular, and Google is one of the main game changers in this area. The Google Maps JavaScript API is one of the most functional and robust mapping APIs used among Geo developers. With Google Maps, you can build location-based apps, maps for mobile apps, visualize geospatial data, and customize your own maps.

Google Maps API Cookbook is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step recipes that will help you to unleash the capabilities of the Google Maps JavaScript API in conjunction with open source or commercial GIS servers and services through a number of practical examples of real world scenarios.

This book begins by covering the essentials of including simple maps for Web and mobile, adding vector and raster layers, styling your own base maps, creating your own controls and responding to events, and including your own events.

You will learn how to integrate open source or commercial GIS servers and services including ArcGIS Server, GeoServer, CartoDB, Fusion Tables, and Google Maps Engine with the Google Maps JavaScript API. You will also extend the Google Maps JavaScript API to push its capabilities to the limit with additional libraries and services including geometry, AdSense, geocoding, directions, and StreetView.

This book covers everything you need to know about creating a web map or GIS applications using the Google Maps JavaScript API on multiple platforms.

What you will learn from this book

• Create simple maps and display them on mobile devices
• Style your own base maps
• Add your own tile maps as base maps or overlays
• Show vector layers on base maps in various types such as points, polylines or polygons
• Parse various vector formats such as KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON, WKT, and so on
• Create a custom UI and customize your own ways to control it
• Respond to various events including mobile gestures
• Add additional libraries to extend the capabilities of the API
• Work with Google Services for geocoding, directions, StreetView, and so on
• Integrate open source or commercial GIS servers or services

Approach

Google Maps API Cookbook follows a fast-paced, high-level, structured cookbook approach, with minimal theory and an abundance of practical, real-world examples explained in a thorough yet concise manner to help you learn quickly and efficiently.

Who this book is written for

Google Maps API Cookbook is for developers who wish to learn how to do anything from adding a simple embedded map to a website to developing complex GIS applications with the Google Maps JavaScript API. It is targeted at JavaScript developers who know how to get by but who are also seeking the immediacy of recipe-based advice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Google Maps JavaScript API Basics
Chapter 2: Adding Raster Layers
Chapter 3: Adding Vector Layers
Chapter 4: Working with Controls
Chapter 5: Understanding Google Maps JavaScript API Events
Chapter 6: Google Maps JavaScript Libraries
Chapter 7: Working with Services
Chapter 8: Mastering the Google Maps JavaScript API through Advanced Recipes

中文：

书名：Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

超过50个食谱，可帮助您使用Google Maps JavaScript API创建Web地图和GIS Web应用程序

Overview

• 利用谷歌地图的强大功能为您的网站添加功能
• 完整的代码示例和屏幕截图，便于您进行实用高效的学习
• 使您能够从头开始构建自己的地图应用程序

In Detail

一天比一天，位置数据的使用变得越来越流行，谷歌是这一领域的主要游戏规则改变者之一。Google Maps JavaScript API是Geo开发人员使用的功能最强大的地图API之一。使用谷歌地图，你可以构建基于位置的应用程序，移动应用程序的地图，可视化地理空间数据，以及定制自己的地图。

Google Maps API Cookbook是一本实用的动手指南，它为您提供了许多清晰、循序渐进的食谱，将帮助您通过许多现实世界场景的实际示例，结合开源或商业GIS服务器和服务来释放Google Maps JavaScript API的功能。

本书首先介绍了包括简单的Web和移动地图、添加矢量和栅格层、设置您自己的底图样式、创建您自己的控件和响应事件以及包括您自己的事件的要点。

您将学习如何将开源或商业的GIS服务器和服务(包括ArcGIS Server、Geoserver、CartoDB、Fusion Tables和Google Maps Engine)与Google Maps JavaScript API集成。您还将使用其他库和服务(包括几何、AdSense、地理编码、方向和StreetView)来扩展Google Maps JavaScript API，以将其功能推向极限。

本书涵盖了在多个平台上使用Google Maps JavaScript API创建Web地图或GIS应用程序所需了解的所有内容。

你将从这本书中学到什么

• Create simple maps and display them on mobile devices
• Style your own base maps
• 将您自己的切片地图添加为底图或叠加
• 在底图上以各种类型(如点、折线或面)显示矢量图层
• Parse various vector formats such as KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON, WKT, and so on
• 创建自定义用户界面并自定义您自己的控制方式
• Respond to various events including mobile gestures
• 添加其他库以扩展API的功能
• 使用Google服务进行地理编码、方向、StreetView等
• 集成开源或商业GIS服务器或服务

Approach

Google Maps API Cookbook遵循快节奏、高层次、结构化的食谱方法，以最少的理论和丰富的实用、真实世界的示例以全面而简洁的方式解释，以帮助您快速有效地学习。

Who this book is written for

Google Maps API Cookbook面向希望学习如何做任何事情的开发人员，从向网站添加简单的嵌入式地图到使用Google Maps JavaScript API开发复杂的GIS应用程序。它面向的是知道如何过日子但也在寻求基于食谱的建议的即时性的JavaScript开发人员。

Table of Contents

第1章：Google Maps JavaScript API基础知识
Chapter 2: Adding Raster Layers
Chapter 3: Adding Vector Layers
Chapter 4: Working with Controls
第5章：了解Google Maps JavaScript API事件
第6章：谷歌地图脚本库
第7章：使用服务
第8章：通过高级食谱掌握Google Maps JavaScript API