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.

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 […]