October 2011
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
9h 25m
English
The challenges for the map-maker project are bringing in the Google Map and then using the map and canvas and buttons together in terms of appearance and in the operation of the GUI. I’ll describe the basic Google Maps API and then explain how HTML5 features provide the partial masking and the event handling.
The Google Maps JavaScript API Version 3 Basics has excellent documentation located at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html. You do not need to refer to it right now, but it will help you if and when you decide to build your own project. It will be especially helpful in producing applications for mobile devices.
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