Beginning Google Maps Applications

There’s a lot of interesting data out there that isn’t points, but regions. In Chapter 10 of the book, we showed you how to calculate an area inside a polygon (see this demo). Unfortunately there just wasn’t the space to cover more region-centric topics. Time to get started on a remedy for that.

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 […]

The book should be on shelves in a bookstore near you, but in the meantime, here’s a sample chapter (Chapter 4) to whet your appetite. Enjoy.
UPDATE: Apress has also posted Chapter 3 on their site.

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 […]