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Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

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Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

Overview of this book

Day by day, the use of location data is becoming more and more popular, and Google is one of the main game changers in this area. The Google Maps JavaScript API is one of the most functional and robust mapping APIs used among Geo developers. With Google Maps, you can build location-based apps, maps for mobile apps, visualize geospatial data, and customize your own maps.Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step recipes that will help you to unleash the capabilities of the Google Maps JavaScript API in conjunction with open source or commercial GIS servers and services through a number of practical examples of real world scenarios. This book begins by covering the essentials of including simple maps for Web and mobile, adding vector and raster layers, styling your own base maps, creating your own controls and responding to events, and including your own events.You will learn how to integrate open source or commercial GIS servers and services including ArcGIS Server, GeoServer, CartoDB, Fusion Tables, and Google Maps Engine with the Google Maps JavaScript API. You will also extend the Google Maps JavaScript API to push its capabilities to the limit with additional libraries and services including geometry, AdSense, geocoding, directions, and StreetView.This book covers everything you need to know about creating a web map or GIS applications using the Google Maps JavaScript API on multiple platforms.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding Street View to your maps


Google Maps already has good map data updated continuously with the ultimate cartographic quality. In addition, there comes the up-to-date satellite imagery. Although these were sufficient for Google Maps to be so popular and successful, there is another view that takes much interest—Street View.

Street View is the 360-degree panorama view from the roads that are covered under this service.

Note

The complete listing of countries and cities where Street View is available can be found at http://maps.google.com/intl/ALL/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/.

In this recipe, we will go over how to add Street View panoramas to the current view, switch between the map view and Street View, and set the panorama properties.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will make use of the concepts related to the geocoding service introduced in the Finding coordinates for an address recipe in this chapter. It is highly advisable to read this recipe to have a general understanding...