Google Maps API
Posted by Shahid What is the Google Maps API?
The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the shahidz.com/map.php web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.
For enabling Google Map in your site you need a key. You can generate the key from this link : http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
Example program for a simple Google Map showing Cochin
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″/>
<title>Google Maps JavaScript API Example</title>
<script src=”http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=GIVE YOUR GOOGLE MAP API KEY HERE”
type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
//<![CDATA[
function load() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
// map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);
// map.setCenter(new GLatLng(8.81355,77.335328), 7);
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(9.91355,76.335328), 11 );
}
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body onload=”load()” onunload=”GUnload()”>
<div id=”map” style=”width: 500px; height: 500px”></div>
</body>
</html>
2 responses to "Google Maps API"
13:10 on February 18th, 2008
The API can be used to power a lot of services. Some real estate companies are using it very effectively.
10:26 on March 10th, 2008
Yes, Google API is a very usefull for generating Google Maps. This applications can be used by courier services for tracking there vehicle. There are some sites that provides you to generate google map. SUch as http://mapmaker.donkeymagic.co.uk/ , http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/spreadsheetsmapwizard/makecustommap.htm