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Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux développeurs web et aux développeurs smartphones qui souhaitent profiter de la technologie et du succès de Google Maps pour enrichir leurs applications en y intégrant des fonctions cartographiques (géolocalisation, itinéraire…).

La version 3 des API Google Maps permet aux développeurs de sites web d’enrichir plus facilement leurs pages de cartes numériques interactives et offre un meilleur support des périphériques mobiles (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.).

Cet ouvrage décrit l’essentiel des fonctionnalités de l’API, ainsi que les méthodes et outils de développement qui vous permettront d’intégrer facilement des données géolocalisées sur un fond de carte Google Maps et de tirer le meilleur parti des outils de webmapping, visualisation de données géoréférencées, etc.

La deuxième partie se focalise sur les nouveaux usages rendus possibles par le succès des smartphones. Enfin, l’API ... Lire la suite

Google Maps allows users to map out single locations, get driving directions, or map a group of locations; Google Earth enables users to zoom into any point on the globe and display various information using satellite and high altitude photos for display.
For hackers and modders, Google Maps and Earth are ripe for some very interesting projects–users are creating their own virtual site-seeing tours and displaying real time traffic . . . and that’s just the beginning.
This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations, including creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth.
Other unique projects show readers how to find any golf course in the world, hack maps with statistical data, build interactive maps, and integrate Maps and Earth with Google search, just to name a ... Lire la suite

Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?

Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.

Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic ... Lire la suite