Hacking GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth (ExtremeTech)

By Martin C. Brown

This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471790095
• ISBN13: 9780471790099
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Hacks hacks everywhere

Google maps has lots of tool and features, some added after this book. But this is still a great book on what kinds of things you can do using Google Maps and Google Earth.

Good book - a bit techie

good book - it was a touch too technical for me. But I learned a good amount - if you have more computer experience - its a great read

Already out of date, but still worth the read

Although I really enjoy this book, it's too bad that it's already out of date (as mentioned in other reviews). As someone with very little previous experience with JavaScript, I found this book to be really helpful it describing how to make stuff happen. I personally have found the Google Maps API Documentation to be far too terse and difficult to figure out; kinda like reading a dictionary to learn how to write. This book takes the simplistic Google examples and builds on to them to give you a better idea of how you might actually build an application. True, "Hacking Google Maps" might not be the best title for the book ("Introduction to Google Maps" might be more appropriate) but it was a very well written and useful book for getting my own Google Maps mash-up going.