October 2011
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
9h 25m
English
A senior at Purchase College had collected and made video clips and photographs about the ethnic neighborhoods of Queens, New York, and wanted a way to present the work. The Google Maps API and the new facilities in HTML5 seemed perfect for the task. Keep in mind that the student only needed a way to present the work on a computer she set up at the senior project show, so the issue of noncompliant browsers was not a concern. The critical requirements include what is supplied by the Google Maps API. As you learned in the previous chapter, we can write code to access a map centered at a specified geographic location, set at an initial zoom level, and showing views of roads or satellite or terrain or a hybrid. ...
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