Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax From

Authors:Andre Lewis, Michael Purvis Jeffrey Sambells Cam
Pages:365
Publisher:Apress
ISBN13:9781590597873
Description:

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing you how you can integrate mapping features into your Rails-driven web applications.

Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, you'll learn how to draw from a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data and Google's own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the world.

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