Beginning Google Maps Applications

Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve added some links to some reverse geocoding services on the geocoders page.
Request for Help: Anyone with a handheld GPS device is encouraged to contact us if they are interested in helping with an experiment requiring worldwide participation. There will probably be a free book or […]

Those of you with unlimited data transfer on a supported phone will definitely want to be keeping track of Google Maps Mobile.
It’s particularly cool that GMM now supports a very limited KML. You only get the first nine points in the file, but it does let you see them.
Update: These are screenshots of Google’s online […]

I wrote to Frank Taylor over at Google Earth blog when Mike published his articles about harvesting the Ontario Parks data into a KML file for use in Google Maps. Frank decided to go one better and discuss the book directly. If you’re visiting from his blog thanks for stopping by and we hope you […]

Yesterday, I demonstrated a KML file of Ontario Parks. Although this approach has some fairly serious limitations over a full mashup, the portability and ease of deployment make it an excellent choice in some situations.
In this article, I explain how the techniques used to generate the Ontario Parks KML. These are general-purpose tools that could […]

Our editor, Jason Gilmore, has written two excellent articles (1 and 2) about using perl’s Geo::Coder::US module to build a home-grown geocoder. It uses the TIGER/Line data and the code behind the Geocoder.us service to build something very quickly and robustly.
These articles inspired Chapter 11 of our new book, so they get a BIG thank […]