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By: Charles FreedmaneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Written by Charles Freedman, a senior Flash developer at Yahoo!, this book provides you with all the information you’ll need to know about APIs in order to build amazing map mashups. You’ll find in-depth coverage of Yahoo! mapping tools and technologies and a variety of techniques for working with the APIs. Yahoo! Maps Mashups explores each API flavor, guiding you through the simple yet comprehensive sets of API calls so that you will gain a strong understanding of the capabilities of each map technology through its respective API.
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| Release Date: 05-07-2007 | |
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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. API stands for application programming interface. It is an interface for programming an application, a collection of functions to program against. An API, like the Yahoo! Maps API, is designed to expose key functionality as functions that, when simply added to your application, enable you to access and control the features of the application. In the coming chapters you will see that many API calls, like setCenterByAddress(), setZoomLevel() and setMapViewType(), are named after their respective functionalities.
A map API enables you to develop with much of the useful and dynamic functionality of map applications. When it is combined with your existing application, your users will benefit from unparalleled, very useful features.
The Four Types of Map APIs
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