April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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310 GOOGLE APPS HACKS
For more Google Earth goodies, also have a look at Frank Taylor’s unofficial Google Earth Blog at
http://gearthblog.com.
HaCK 128:
Google Maps had quite an effect on the Internet—not just on
users, but also on competing mapping products, which after
a while tried to improve their service in the direction of the
explorative, fast-paced interface Google built.
Google Maps isn’t the only good web mapping application, by far. There’s also Yahoo! Local Maps at
http://maps.yahoo.com, among others. Except for the lefthand side advertisement, the interface is
rather similar to Google Maps. A search box can take you straight to a location—you can enter “Rome,
Italy” for instance—and you can drag or zoom the map view. A click on the Hybrid button on top
displays a mix of street/city labels and satellite imagery, as in Figure 11-45.
Developers may be interested in dabbling around with the Yahoo! Maps web service. It can be found
at http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ and offers not a single API but many APIs under one hood.
You need to sign up for an application ID as part of the Yahoo! Developer Network to get started.
The Yahoo! Maps Simple API, for example, allows you to point to a GeoRSS XML le containing your
custom map overlay information (note that Google Maps also supports GeoRS ...
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