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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 CartoDB layers to maps


CartoDB is a geospatial database on the cloud that allows for the storage and visualization of data on the Web. Using CartoDB will allow you to quickly create map-based visualizations. According to the CartoDB website (www.cartodb.com), you can use CartoDB in the following ways:

  • Upload, visualize, and manage your data using the CartoDB dashboard

  • Quickly create and customize maps that you can embed or share via public URL using the map-embedding tool

  • Analyze and integrate data you store on CartoDB into your applications using the SQL API

  • For more advanced integrations of CartoDB maps on your website or application, use CartoDB.js

CartoDB is an open source project for which you can fork the code from GitHub and start your own CartoDB instance on your own hardware, but the power of CartoDB is the cloud backend. CartoDB is based on PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and Mapnik, which are the most popular and powerful open source geo tools nowadays.

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