Google Maps API Cookbook follows a fast-paced, high-level, structured cookbook approach, with minimal theory and an abundance of practical, real-world examples explained in a thorough yet concise manner to help you learn quickly and efficiently. Google Maps API Cookbook is for developers who wish to learn how to do anything from adding a simple embedded map to a website to developing complex GIS applications with the Google Maps JavaScript API. It is targeted at JavaScript developers who know how to get by but who are also seeking the immediacy of recipe-based advice.
Google Maps API Cookbook follows a fast-paced, high-level, structured cookbook approach, with minimal theory and an abundance of practical, real-world examples explained in a thorough yet concise manner to help you learn quickly and efficiently. Google Maps API Cookbook is for developers who wish to learn how to do anything from adding a simple embedded map to a website to developing complex GIS applications with the Google Maps JavaScript API. It is targeted at JavaScript developers who know how to get by but who are also seeking the immediacy of recipe-based advice.
Alper Dincer is a civil engineer with an MS degree in Geographical
Sciences. He has more
than 10 years of experience in developing web and mobile GIS/LBS
projects.
Since the beginning of his career, he was always passionate about
maps and geo stuff. He
started working as a research assistant at a university and then
moved to a governmental
agency to work with maps. He is also the co-founder of a tech
company named Mekansal.
He also has some achievements relating to geo web projects. In
2009, he got the first place
in the ESRI Developer Summit Mashup Challenge with his open source
project ExtMap.
ExtMap was based on the Google Maps JavaScript API v2. He is one of
the Google Qualified
Developers of the Google Maps JavaScript API program. In 2010, he
also worked as a proctor
in the same program as a volunteer.
As a developer and entrepreneur, he still likes coding with
JavaScript, PHP, and Objective-C on
different web and mobile projects. He completely agrees with Steve
Jobs' quotes 'Love what
you do' and 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'. Balkan Uraz is a city
planner with an MS degree in Geographical Sciences. He has over
15 years of experience in the field of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS).
Throughout his career, he has worked on several projects with one
thing in common:
GIS. In the early days of his career, he worked on projects
involving municipal GIS and city
information systems. He has also worked as a research assistant
while he was conducting
the tedious work on his thesis on routing systems.
He has worked on major LBS projects for mobile operators in Turkey
that involve both
software development and building the data inventory. He co-founded
a tech company
that specialized in navigation data collection and navigation
products. He has also
been a GIS consultant for major companies operating in the areas of
field tracking
and real estate.
In all his projects, he has worked around the same passion:
building up the
spatial infrastructure.
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