Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth is one-of a kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating smashups with data from other sources such as Flicker, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox Piggy Bank, 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.Google Maps allows users to map out single locations, get driving directions, or map a group of locations.
Google Earth enables users to zoom into any point on the globe and display various information using satellite and high altitude photos for display.
For hackers and modders, Google Maps and Earth are ripe for some very interesting projects users are creating their own virtual site-seeing tours and displaying real time traffic.
and that's just the beginning.
Language: English - 753 pages -
Format: PDF
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (28 Jul 2006)more information from
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