Comments on: I’m writing a book about Google Maps

By: Gabriel Svennerberg

Gabriel Svennerberg — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:02:16 +0000

Thanks for your feedback Steffen. Maybe that’s something I should create a tutorial for.

By: Steffen Mutter

Steffen Mutter — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:39:39 +0000

I bought your book. Some aspects are very interesting, but what’s really missing (in my opinion) is a layer to show latLng positions of the mouse over the map. I tried it using a API v2 sample but failed. What I want to do is to set a marker (dblklick) and store it in a database (Get or Post to a php-connector) shouldn’t be too difficult, but I got stuck.

An exact description how to get some slide in/out sidebars working (like the routing stuff in maps.google.com) to enhance user-experience.

I really like your book, but I still miss some features.

Kind regards from Germany,
Steffen

By: Enid Ballard

Enid Ballard — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:58:55 +0000

Very interesting topic! Good luck with your writing!

By: Muhammad Naeem

Muhammad Naeem — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:11:03 +0000

Please help .I want drwa an ellipse i google map api v3

By: NosboD

NosboD — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:35:44 +0000

Thanks,
The manual was really useful,
Now waiting for the Full Manual!

By: Flip

Flip — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:35:51 +0000

Really looking forward to the book. Just diving in to maps v3 and your posts were really helpful. Any updated ETA?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:19:51 +0000

Good luck with the book! If you need beta-testers let me know.
One thing I would like to know is: I have an address or a position. How can I get the name of the country and the name of the city? I tried reverse geo-coding and I get something but I am not sure if there is an exact node for the city or not. This isn’t documented anywhere. Maybe it’s different for each country?
I need this because I want to group my markers by country and city. So depending on the zoom level I want to show locations (zoomed in) or cities (zoomed out).
Maybe you can handle this in your book. And I would be happy to read a how-to and not having to wait for your book.

By the way: Someone said this will be the first book about Google Maps. It isn’t. There are two – one for Ruby on Rails and one for PHP users. I think one of those is in the process of preparing a new release.

Cheers
Marcus

By: Kevin Macdonald

Kevin Macdonald — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:44:52 +0000

Hello,

I’d like to point you to two cluster implementations that manage the display of 2,050,000 markers with real-time responsiveness:
http://spatialdatabox.com/million-marker-map/million-marker-map.html
http://spatialdatabox.com/heat-map/heat-map.html

I am working on a reimplementation of the million marker map to provide a more appealing presentation of content.

Please feel free to contact me if you’d like to discuss this further.

And, good luck on your book. Writing clearly is tough work.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:16:25 +0000

Yes, that is definitely a good idea. I could use such a book right now, while I am learning the Maps API.

Lycka till!

By: Ines

Ines — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:21:26 +0000

Great idea! I’m looking forward to it. Maybe our clustering solution http://www.geocubes.com for dealing with large amounts of markers could be interesting to analyse and compare.