Google Maps Hacks. Foreword by Jens & Lars Rasmussen, Google Maps Tech Leads Rich Gibson, Schuyler Erle

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• Google Maps Hacks
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Credits
  • About the Authors
  • Contributors
• Preface
  • Putting the World in the World Wide Web
    • Open APIs + Open Data Formats = Web 2.0 Heaven
    • Who Will Aggregate the Aggregators?
    • Not Just Where 2.0, But Also Why 2.0
  • Why Google Maps Hacks?
  • How to Use This Book
  • How This Book Is Organized
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Using Code Examples
  • How to Contact Us
  • Got a Hack?
  • Safari Enabled
• 1. You Are Here: Introducing Google Maps
  • 1.1. Hacks 19: Introduction
  • 1. Get Around
    • 1.2.1. Whats Different About Google Maps?
    • 1.2.2. Getting Around
    • 1.2.3. Entering a Location
  • 2. Find Yourself (and Others) on Google Maps
    • 1.3.1. Odd and Surprising Ways to Find Things
    • 1.3.2. When Locations Fail: The Importance of Context
  • 3. Navigate the World in Your Web Browser
    • 1.4.1. Just a Click Away
    • 1.4.2. You Control the Horizontal and the Vertical
    • 1.4.3. Economies of Scale
    • 1.4.4. Take the Shortcut
    • 1.4.5. Taste the Secret Sauce
  • 4. Get the Birds-Eye View
    • 1.5.1. Is It Really There?
    • 1.5.2. Hybrid Vigor
  • 5. Driven to a Better User Interface
    • 1.6.1. Using the Info Windows
    • 1.6.2. Other Ways to Search
  • 6. Share Google Maps
    • 1.7.1. Bookmark a Google Map or Post It on Your Web Page
    • 1.7.2. Shorten That Link!
    • 1.7.3. Limits on Email and Links
  • 7. Inside Google Maps URLs
    • 1.8.1. More Parameters!
    • 1.8.2. Finding More Parameters?
    • 1.8.3. See Also
  • 8. Generate Links to Google Maps in a Spreadsheet
    • 1.9.1. See Also
  • 9. Use del.icio.us to Keep Up with Google Maps
    • 1.10.1. See Also
• 2. Introducing the Google Maps API
  • 2.1. Hacks 1016: Introduction
  • 10. Add a Google Map to Your Web Site
    • 2.2.1. Get a Developer Key
    • 2.2.2. Hello, World!
    • 2.2.3. Getting Outside of Your Head
    • 2.2.4. Getting Right to the Point
    • 2.2.5. See Also
  • 11. Where Did the User Click?
  • 12. How Far Is That? Go Beyond Driving Directions
  • 13. Create a Route with a Click (or Two)
    • 2.5.1. The Code
  • 14. Create Custom Map Markers
    • 2.6.1. Find the Right Foreground Image
    • 2.6.2. Casting the Shadow
    • 2.6.3. Add Your New Icon to a Map
    • 2.6.4. See Also
  • 15. Map a Slideshow of Your Travels
    • 2.7.1. The Code
    • 2.7.2. See Also
  • 16. How Big Is the World?
    • 2.8.1. Economies of Scale
    • 2.8.2. So, How Much?
    • 2.8.3. What About the Rest of the World?
• 3. Mashing Up Google Maps
  • 3.1. Hacks 1728: Introduction
  • 17. Map the News
  • 18. Examine Patterns of Criminal Activity
    • 3.3.1. Adding Ward and ZIP Code Boundaries
    • 3.3.2. See Also
  • 19. Map Local Weather Conditions
    • 3.4.1. The Situation Outside Is
    • 3.4.2. More Than Just the Weather
    • 3.4.3. Microclimates and Distributed Weather Reporting
    • 3.4.4. See Also
  • 20. Track Official Storm Reporting
    • 3.5.1. Getting the Data
    • 3.5.2. The Hack
    • 3.5.3. See Also
  • 21. Track the International Space Station
    • 3.6.1. How It Works
    • 3.6.2. See Also
  • 22. Witness the Effects of a Nuclear Explosion
    • 3.7.1. The Code
    • 3.7.2. See Also
  • 23. Find a Place to Live
    • 3.8.1. What to Do?
    • 3.8.2. How It Works
    • 3.8.3. See Also
  • 24. Search for Events by Location
    • 3.9.1. How It Works
    • 3.9.2. See Also
  • 25. Track Your UPS Packages
    • 3.10.1. The Hack
    • 3.10.2. The Code
    • 3.10.3. Hacking the Hack
  • 26. Follow Your Packets Across the Internet
    • 3.11.1. From Clicks to Bricks
    • 3.11.2. How It Works
    • 3.11.3. Hacking the Hack
  • 27. Add Google Maps to Any Web Site
    • 3.12.1. Greasemap to the Rescue
    • 3.12.2. Installing Greasemap
    • 3.12.3. Taking Greasemap Out for a Spin
    • 3.12.4. How Greasemap Identifies Locations
    • 3.12.5. See Also
  • 28. How Big Is That, Exactly?
    • 3.13.1. The Hack
    • 3.13.2. The Code
    • 3.13.3. How Big Is That Big?
• 4. On the Road with Google Maps
  • 4.1. Hacks 2941: Introduction
  • 29. Find the Best Gasoline Prices
    • 4.2.1. What a Gas!
    • 4.2.2. GasWatch
  • 30. Stay Out of Traffic Jams
    • 4.3.1. Avoiding Gridlock in the United States
    • 4.3.2. Avoiding Gridlock in the United Kingdom
    • 4.3.3. But, Wait, Theres More!
    • 4.3.4. Hacking the Hack
  • 31. Navigate Public Transportation
    • 4.4.1. Vancouver
    • 4.4.2. Boston
    • 4.4.3. Seattle
    • 4.4.4. New York City
    • 4.4.5. Chicago
    • 4.4.6. Wheres My City?
  • 32. Locate a Phone Number
  • 33. Why Your Cell Phone Doesnt Work There
  • 34. Publish Your Own Hiking Trail Maps
  • 35. Load Driving Directions into Your GPS
    • 4.8.1. See Also
  • 36. Get Driving Directions for More Than Two Locations
  • 37. View Your GPS Tracklogs in Google Maps
    • 4.10.1. Processing GPX Tracks to Reduce Complexity
    • 4.10.2. Converting GPX to JavaScript Calls Using Ruby
    • 4.10.3. Supporting HTML and JavaScript for GPX Viewing
    • 4.10.4. Client-Side Implementation
    • 4.10.5. Other Possibilities
    • 4.10.6. See Also
  • 38. Map Your Wardriving Expeditions
    • 4.11.1. The Hack
    • 4.11.2. The Code
    • 4.11.3. Hacking the Hack
  • 39. Track Your Every Move with Google Earth
    • 4.12.1. Peering into the Keyhole
    • 4.12.2. Back Down to Earth
    • 4.12.3. The Code
    • 4.12.4. Hacking the Hack
      • 4.12.4.1. Pre-cache the Google Earth data.
      • 4.12.4.2. Let other Google Earth users follow along in real time.
      • 4.12.4.3. Add other peoples photos into the browser window.
      • 4.12.4.4. Add other peoples photos into Google Earth itself.
  • 40. The Ghost in Google Ride Finder
    • 4.13.1. Finding the Data
    • 4.13.2. Accumulating the Data
    • 4.13.3. Plotting the Data
    • 4.13.4. Hacking the Hack
    • 4.13.5. See Also
  • 41. How Google Maps Got Me Out of a Traffic Ticket
    • 4.14.1. See Also
• 5. Google Maps in Words and Pictures
  • 5.1. Hacks 4250: Introduction
  • 42. Get More out of What You Read
  • 43. Dont Believe Everything You Read on a Map
  • 44. You Got Your A9 Local in My Google Maps!
  • 45. Share Pictures with Your Community
  • 46. Browse Photography by Shooting Location
    • 5.6.1. Tag, Youre It
    • 5.6.2. The Catch
    • 5.6.3. The Code
    • 5.6.4. Hacking the Hack
  • 47. Geotag Your Own Photos on Flickr
  • 48. Tell Your Communitys Story
    • 5.8.1. The Hack
    • 5.8.2. Getting Started
    • 5.8.3. Adding Your Own Locations
    • 5.8.4. Adding Photos to the Map
  • 49. Generate Geocoded RSS from Any Google Map
    • 5.9.1. The Hack
    • 5.9.2. The Code
  • 50. Geoblog with Google Maps in Thingster
    • 5.10.1. Enter Thingster
    • 5.10.2. Adding Maps to Blogs
    • 5.10.3. Practice
    • 5.10.4. How Do You Actually Use Thingster?
• 6. API Tips and Tricks
  • 6.1. Hacks 5161: Introduction
  • 51. Make a Fullscreen Map the Right Way
    • 6.2.1. Making a Map Take Up the Full Screen
    • 6.2.2. Adding a Side Panel to the Map
  • 52. Put a Map and HTML into Your Info Windows
    • 6.3.1. See Also
  • 53. Add Flash Applets to Your Google Maps
    • 6.4.1. Flash in the Info Window
    • 6.4.2. Communication Between Flash and Your Google Map
    • 6.4.3. Beyond Flash
  • 54. Add a Nicer Info Window to Your Map with TLabel
    • 6.5.1. Using TLabel
  • 55. Put Photographs on Your Google Maps
  • 56. Pin Your Own Maps to Google Maps with TPhoto
  • 57. Do a Local Zoom with GxMagnifier
    • 6.8.1. The Hack
    • 6.8.2. Doing More with GxMagnifier
      • 6.8.2.1. Zooming.
      • 6.8.2.2. Resizing.
      • 6.8.2.3. Capturing the cick.
      • 6.8.2.4. Moving the button.
      • 6.8.2.5. Automatically panning.
      • 6.8.2.6. Docking.
      • 6.8.2.7. Multiple magnifiers and negative zoom.
    • 6.8.3. See Also
  • 58. Find the Right Zoom Level
    • 6.9.1. The Brute Force Method
    • 6.9.2. The Analytic Method
    • 6.9.3. The Undocumented API Method
  • 59. Show Lots of StuffQuickly
    • 6.10.1. The Code
    • 6.10.2. See Also
  • 60. Make Things Happen When the Map Moves
    • 6.11.1. The Hack
    • 6.11.2. The Code
    • 6.11.3. The GEvent API
    • 6.11.4. Hacking the Hack
  • 61. Use the Right Developers Key Automatically
    • 6.12.1. Pick the Right Key in Perl
    • 6.12.2. Use JavaScript to Accomplish the Same Goal
    • 6.12.3. Using Apaches mod_rewrite to Share Keys
    • 6.12.4. Edit .htaccess to Rewrite Requests
    • 6.12.5. See Also
• 7. Extreme Google Maps Hacks
  • 7.1. Hacks 6270: Introduction
  • 62. Find the Latitude and Longitude of a Street Address
    • 7.2.1. The Hack
    • 7.2.2. The Code
      • 7.2.2.1. XML-RPC.
      • 7.2.2.2. REST.
      • 7.2.2.3. SOAP.
    • 7.2.3. The Caveats
    • 7.2.4. Geocoding Addresses Outside the U.S.
    • 7.2.5. See Also
  • 63. Read and Write Markers from a MySQL Database
    • 7.3.1. Structuring Your Database
    • 7.3.2. The Code
    • 7.3.3. See Also
  • 64. Build Custom Icons on the Fly
    • 7.4.1. The Hack
    • 7.4.2. The Code
    • 7.4.3. See Also
  • 65. Add More Imagery with a WMS Interface
    • 7.5.1. The Hack
    • 7.5.2. The Code
    • 7.5.3. The Virtues of Additional Map Layers
    • 7.5.4. Finding and Using Other WMS Servers
    • 7.5.5. See Also
  • 66. Add Your Own Custom Map
    • 7.6.1. Four Steps to Add a Custom Map
    • 7.6.2. Create a New Map Type
    • 7.6.3. Set the Path to Your Map Images
    • 7.6.4. Customize Your Maps Button Name
    • 7.6.5. Add Your Map to the List of Map Types
    • 7.6.6. See Also
  • 67. Serve Custom Map Imagery
    • 7.7.1. Conclusion
    • 7.7.2. See Also
  • 68. Automatically Cut and Name Custom Map Tiles
    • 7.8.1. The Google Map Tile Structure
    • 7.8.2. Figuring Out the Values for Your Tiles
    • 7.8.3. Configuring the Script
      • 7.8.3.1. ZoomLevel.
      • 7.8.3.2. FolderPath.
      • 7.8.3.3. Furthest zoom upper-left corner values.
    • 7.8.4. Running Our Script in Photoshop
    • 7.8.5. Hacking the Hack
    • 7.8.6. See Also
  • 69. Cluster Markers at High Zoom Levels
    • 7.9.1. The Hack
    • 7.9.2. Choosing the Right Clustering Algorithm
      • 7.9.2.1. k-means clustering.
      • 7.9.2.2. Hierarchical clustering.
      • 7.9.2.3. Nave grid-based clustering.
    • 7.9.3. The Code
      • 7.9.3.1. The server-side CGI script.
      • 7.9.3.2. The client-side JavaScript.
    • 7.9.4. Conclusion
    • 7.9.5. See Also
  • 70. Will the Kids Barf? (and Other Cool Ways to Use Google Maps)
    • 7.10.1. Other Cool Google Maps Hacks
      • 7.10.1.1. Google sightseeing.
      • 7.10.1.2. ZIP Code maps.
      • 7.10.1.3. Google Planimeter.
      • 7.10.1.4. Play games on Google Maps.
      • 7.10.1.5. Map versus satellite.
      • 7.10.1.6. Edible plants in the public domain.
      • 7.10.1.7. Animate a route.
      • 7.10.1.8. Track your credit card spending.
    • 7.10.2. Where to from Here?
• Index
• About the Authors
• Colophon
• Copyright

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