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  • Series: Hacks
  • Paperback: 370 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 27, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596101619
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596101619
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5.0 out of 5 starsEmbed the power of Google maps into your web pages
By calvinnme HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on January 21, 2006
Format: Paperback
The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed "info windows" just like in the maps section of Google. "Google Map Hacks" shows you how to use the power of the Google Maps API to perform useful tasks via your web pages. A key is required to use the API, and a single Google Maps API key is valid for a single directory on your web server, so the key you get will be good for all URLs in that particular directory. You must have a Google Account to get a Maps API key, and your API key will be connected to your Google Account.
The book starts out with a simple "Hello World" map application and moves on to show you how to map local weather conditions, find the best prices on a particular product, share pictures with your community, and add interactivity by causing a map to pan or zoom in response to user input. There are a total of 70 hacks that are actually map projects rather than just tips, which is often the case in other O'Reilly Hack books. I particularly liked the set of hacks in chapter 4, "On the Road". Since I live in the uber-congested Washington DC metro area, it is helpful to have hacks that tell me how to avoid traffic jams and how to find out "why my cell phone doesn't work there". Because using the Google Map API depends on inserting the correct code into the Javascript of web pages, the reader should already be familiar with HTML and with Javascript in order to get the most from this book. Amazon does not show the table of contents (list of Hacks) so I do that here:
Chapter 1. You Are Here: Introducing Google Maps
Hack 1. Get Around [...]
Hack 2. Find Yourself (and Others) on Google Maps
Hack 3.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood information that's out of date
By Alan B. Humphrey on January 26, 2007
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The book is interesting and has many good ideas and some valuable information. Be aware, however, that the advanced hacks (those dealing with calling the API from your own code) are based on a now obsolete version of the API. So, for example, Hack 62 that tells you how to find that longitude and latitude of an address doesn't tell you that you can accomplish the task via Google now. Hack 58 (Find the right zoom level) has one (of three) technique that uses an undocumented API that has, apparently, gone away. And, of course, it doesn't provide the easy way to do it using the current API.

I'm not faulting the authors for not seeing into the future. The book is well written and engaging. Just be aware that parts of it are already out of date.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFun Google Map mashups
By Jack D. Herrington on March 8, 2006
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This book is really about using Google Maps in conjunction with other services to create mashup applications. So it not only illustrates applications of the mapping technology, but also gives you great insight into how to stretch Maps for your own stuff.

The hacks books aren't always about things you can use directly. Often they are like this book where your knowledge of the topic is stretched and inspired.

Great book. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDIY Cartography
By Warren Kelly VINE VOICE on April 2, 2006
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Everyone knows Google Maps. Google has gone out of its way to make Google Maps something that everyone knows about, uses, and talks about. There are blogs that are just about all the mash-ups and hacks people have come up with for Google Maps.

And now, O'Reilly has released Google Maps Hacks, showing how anyone can use the Google Maps API for their own benefit, with a little help.

The book starts off with a basic tutorial on how to add a Google Map to your site - if you're going to mash up, you have to have something to mash, after all! It also (in Hack 27) shows you how to use Greasemap to add Google Maps functionality to any web site (assuming you've already got Greasemonkey and Firefox is your browser). As with all hacks books, Google Maps Hacks includes some basic hacks that just about anyone can do (and points to some great places to see great hacks already done!), and some that are going to require a bit of work and some programming skill.

There were several hacks in the book that I really loved. First, the book pointed me to a site promising to show me where I could find cheap gas. They've integrated Google Maps with GasBuddy to create something incredibly useful, though I wish it were updated more often. (My local station hasn't been updated since September of 2005!)

To use the really good hacks, you'll need a GPS. Many of the mash-ups are best used when you're out on the road. (Hack 35 shows how to dump Google Maps data to your GPS system, and #37 shows how to reverse that process and import your GPS Tracklogs to Google Maps.)

The most useful part of the book, though, is when we get to see how various mash-ups work.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsValuable content from all perspectives
By Shaun W. Taylor on September 8, 2006
Format: Paperback
I've read both this and the ExtremeTech "Hacking Google Maps," and both have their place, but I found this one to be much more valuable.

It doesn't contain any introductory information to the API, which some may be looking for, but it's not something that I would expect to see in a Hacks book anyway. With the v2 release of the API in April 2006, Google's own documentation has gotten a lot better, and it's the best place to go for a tutorial.

The book contains a great collection of hacks from all perspectives: users looking to get the most out of Google Maps, power users looking to push the functionality in new ways, and developers using the API. There's also a good overview of some popular mashups from the mashups' developers perspectives, and extensions to the API (e.g. TLabel, TPhoto).

Because there are so many contributors, you'll notice a change in tone and writing style throughout the book; and different coding practices are easy to spot, e.g. one code sample might use a standard, documented JS call, while another uses a homegrown function to accomplish the same thing. Another drawback is that the book is written to v1 of the API, which was replaced months ago, although is backwards compatible. This doesn't affect readability or value, but several of the undocumented features in the book are in fact documented in v2!

Great book, filled with useful information.
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4.0 out of 5 starsWritten For A Computer Programmer And Not The Average Joe

This book is extremely detailed and complete for those readers who already speak the language of computer and API programming. Read more

Published on August 4, 2008 by Sam I Am
5.0 out of 5 starsThe best Google Maps book

If you'd like to program or create sites with mapping tools, this book will really help.

Short and direct chapters. Easy to read and learn.

Published on November 7, 2006 by Guilherme Ribeiro
2.0 out of 5 starsWhere are the basics?

The collection of apps here are fascinating. But I looked for a tutorial telling me "this is how you embed a map, select several points of interest, and label them.". Read more

Published on August 6, 2006 by William Linden
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One of the most popular features to come out of Google has been their Google Maps site. In addition to just being able to see places and get directions, there's a whole... Read more

Published on March 17, 2006 by Thomas Duff
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Best Mapping Software. Period.

Is there a more important software company in the last decade than Google? When Google makes something, you know it's going to be good and that is most definitely the case with... Read more

Published on February 14, 2006 by Dan McKinnon
3.0 out of 5 starsGoogle Maps Reference

This was a tough buy for me. I wasn't sure if this book would give me any ideas that I couldn't just get from the Google Maps API discussion group or the google maps mania blog. Read more

Published on January 29, 2006 by Donald W. Stein

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