Beginning Google Maps Applications

I thought I’d share this with anyone who hasn’t received it yet… Another example of what you could do with the maps interface and an alternative tile set like Jeff’s blue-marble map.
Starting today, astronomy enthusiasts can now view imagery of millions
of celestial objects online - without downloading software.
Google Sky brings the imagery and functionality of […]

Amy writes “We just posted an article Top 50 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google Maps. I thought I’d bring it to your attention just in case you think your readers would find it interesting.”
Indeed. Some of this will be well known to our readers, however our newer mashup friends might find […]

In the last few weeks we’ve seen an explosion of people complaining about the lack of asinh() on the Windows version of PHP. We use the asinh() function extensively in Chapter 7 for the custom tile overlays. Admittedly, we didn’t test any of the code against windows versions of PHP (we’re LAMP folks), so until […]

Hello All,
We’ve talked and talked about adding forums to this site and decided against it. We already do all of the support we can by email and encourage anyone who has trouble with anything in the books to contact us that way. If the problem is common enough we’ll blog about it instead. We also […]

Our three week entry period is over and we have selected the winners of a free copy of Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional.
From the over 450+ entries received we have randomly selected four lucky winners. They are:

Ryan Irelan of Raleigh, NC, USA
Daniel Leong of London, UK
Mike Hodgson (location […]