Google Maps can give your web application that added “A picture is worth a thousand words” edge. How to add Google Maps and sample code are presented in this second article in a series on using Google AJAX APIs to enhance your web presence. Simple, direct instructions and working example.
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