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Yahoo! Maps Mashups

Freedman, Charles

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Yahoo! Maps is the most innovative of the online mapping service, and provides robust APIs that allow developers to create their own map-based applications and services
Reviews the simple, yet comprehensive Map APIs built on Ajax, JavaScript, Flash, and Flex and allow users to build amazing map applications
Teaches readers mashup fundamentals (including REST, XML, and popular map-friendly Web services), how to develop tight and efficient mashups with the Ajax API, and how to enrich the mashup experience with the JavaScript-Flash API
Explores map features such as panning and zooming, widgets, markers, overlays, and geocoding
Includes fully implemented and guided mashups featuring flickr, HotJobs, Upcoming.org, real-time weather, traffic, video, and more

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Title of ebook: Yahoo! Maps Mashups
ISBN: 9780470144213
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 12308 kb
Pages: 384
Released online for download: 01-29-2007
Author of eBook: Freedman, Charles

Yahoo! Maps Mashups

Chapter One

Your Map, Your World

"When I have the map, I will be free, and the world will be different, because I have understanding." - Time Bandits, 1981

This chapter discusses

* What map APIs are

* What map applications can do

* The core principles of map technology, including map projection and scaling

* Why Yahoo! offers three types of map APIs

What Is a Map API?

As an avid web user, you probably use map applications all the time, even daily. Map applications, like the Yahoo! Maps beta, enable millions of users to find locations by address, get driving directions and search for businesses based on location. These useful applications have become some of the most popular and dependable sets of functionality on the web.

As a web developer, you have probably worked with APIs ... read full excerpt from Yahoo! Maps Mashups ebook