Beginning Google Maps Applications

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]