Google AJAX Map APIs: Easy Steps to Adding Maps to Your Site or Web Application

Google AJAX Map APIs: Easy Steps to Adding Maps to Your Site or Web Application
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A Few Map Basics

Google maps can be a very useful part of a web application. Especially if you are trying to guide your viewer to your brick and mortar business, or point out a place of interest somewhere in the world. Part one of this series introduced the Google Loader and how it permits the use of multiple APIs in the same web application. This article isn’t going to rehash that information; but, there is one addition to make. If you are using the API key feature from Google, you will need to modify the

After that, the rest of the Maps API coding generally follows the structure we used for the search APIs. There are a few key things to make note of regarding this code. In the opening

This post is part of the series: Using Google Code

Do you want to bring your web pages to life? Add robust, interactive features to your web pages. This series of how-to articles walks you through adding Google APIs, simply, to your applications. Code samples in HTML & JavaScript included.

  1. Using Google Code: Part 1 - Search
  2. Using Google Code: Pt. 2 - Maps
  3. Using Google Code: Pt. 3 - AJAX Feeds API
  4. Using Google Code: Pt. 4 - Book Search