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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

Styling of Google base maps


Google base maps show a variety of details such as water bodies (oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, and so on), roads, parks, and built-up areas (residential, industrial, and so on). As you have observed in the first chapter, all these are shown in predefined cartographic parameters. With the styling capability of base maps, you have a virtually unlimited set of choices in terms of the cartographic representation of base maps.

In your web or mobile applications, it is very beneficial to have a diversity of representations (in all different color schemes with different emphasis) in order to keep your audience more involved; maps blend neatly into your website design.

This recipe will guide you through the process of changing the styling of base maps.

Getting ready

We can continue from the Creating a simple map in a custom DIV element recipe from Chapter 1, Google Maps JavaScript API Basics, as we do not need to recall the basics of creating the map.

How to do it…

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