Chapter 8. Location-Based Services and Mobile Mapping
The focus of the next four chapters will be on location-based services and building a geosocial game utilizing data from the geosocial network Gowalla (http://gowalla.com). If the terms location-based service and geosocial network mean little to you now (or if you've never heard of Gowalla), don't worry—they will be explained very soon.
As far as coding in this chapter, we will be looking at a couple of different mobile-friendly mapping APIs (Google Maps and Tile5) and how to render a simple map using them. We will then go deeper into the Google Maps API and look at how to display markers and interact with the map. While it would be great to do this with both Google and Tile5, we really need ...
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