Comments for Beginning Google Maps Applications

Comment on Extending The API To Create Labeled Markers by Peng Fang

Peng Fang — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:59:11 +0000

The extension is very useful. I really appreciate its development.
I am having trouble to display ‘-’ together with any text, such as ‘-5mm’. the text after ‘-’ will be offset to a new line. I wonder if anybody could help me out on this.
Thank you in advance.

Comment on Extending The API To Create Labeled Markers by DonB

DonB — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:36:06 +0000

Thank you for writing an article that explains ‘why’, not just ‘what’ like so many others do. For example, when I read the code snippet with the ‘absolute’ CSS attribute I instantly thought, ‘Why?’ I was pleased to see you address that just two paragraphs later.

Comment on GeoKit: A Rails Plugin for Map Applications by Harold Modesto

Harold Modesto — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:11:52 +0000

I too am interested to know if something similar exists for PHP.

Comment on Chapter 3 encoding issues by marcello

marcello — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:32:14 +0000

If I want to add a photo into the marker, what can I do?

I want to save the marker into a mysql server and save a reference of the location of the photo too.

Anybody has a suggestion for me?

Thank you

Comment on Extending The API To Create Labeled Markers by chipwreck | blog » archive » Google maps customization

chipwreck | blog » archive » Google maps customization — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:50:16 +0000

[…] The “click-here” button with the GIF background is created using an extension of the GMarker class, details on googlemapsbook.com. […]

Comment on GeoKit: A Rails Plugin for Map Applications by Ben Lam

Ben Lam — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:32:52 +0000

Is there a similar map application for PHP?

Thanks

Comment on Clickable LabeledMarker by Charles

Charles — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:21:11 +0000

Hi Mike,

Just a quick follow up on my question about change the z-index of a live marker. In the end I had to create a array of live markers and manually remove and re-add a marker every time i needed to change its z-index. It works quite well, and after many months the site is pretty much done!

Check it out at http://www.thebandbdirectory.co.uk

Thanks for the help!

Charles.

Comment on Importing Shapefiles by Justin Leider

Justin Leider — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:18:36 +0000

Wow, this documentation just made my day! Thanks for the great documentation. probably would have taken me a couple days worth of trial and error to get all my shp data imported into SQL. THANKS!

Comment on Ruby on Rails code download by Andre

Andre — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:02:45 +0000

@Charles: Yahoo requests that you create a key for each application, but at the time of writing it wasn’t actually required to run your app. For geocoding purposes (I’m not sure about displaying maps), you can enter a pseudo-url like http://localhost

@Jean, @Aruna — the single quote and double quote in Ruby are essentially identical except that the single quote does not allow interpolation. If the single quote character is the problem (perhaps because it was typed or copied as “curly quotes”), it can be replaced with normal single quotes or normal double quotes.

Comment on Ruby on Rails code download by Charles

Charles — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:04:57 +0000

Many things are going wrong here. First of all, Sandra’s problem is one that I encountered and solved yesterday. They are typos in the book. I just sent you an email.

And the code differences that Jon mentioned, as well as many sections of code missing from the ZIP file, waste the reader’s time and make it a real hassle to understand what’s going on. The book is good, but these items need to be addressed now.

Is there a later version of the book we can all get to stop the confusion? Here is the info from my book:
Copyright 2007
ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-59059-787-3
ISBM-10 (pbk): 1-59059-787-7