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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

Accessing ArcGIS Server with the Google Maps JavaScript API


ArcGIS Server is the mapping and spatial server developed by ESRI. It is a proprietary software, but the capabilities and integration with desktop software make ArcGIS Server better than other spatial server products. ArcGIS Server is a complete spatial server solution for enterprise corporations or institutions. ArcGIS Server is used for creating and managing GIS web services, applications, and data. ArcGIS Server is typically deployed on-premises within the organization's Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) or off-premises in a cloud computing environment.

ESRI releases APIs for the ArcGIS Server to use in multiple platforms, but ESRI does not support the Google Maps JavaScript API v3. There was an extension for the Google Maps JavaScript API v2, but it does not work with the new API. There is an open source library to extend the Google Maps JavaScript API v3 to work with ArcGIS Server.

In this recipe, we will use the open source...