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Yahoo! Maps Mashups
Book Description:
Book Description
Yahoo! Maps is the most innovative of the online mapping service, and provides robust APIs that allow developers to create their own map-based applications and services
Reviews the simple, yet comprehensive Map APIs built on Ajax, JavaScript, Flash, and Flex and allow users to build amazing map applications
Teaches readers mashup fundamentals (including REST, XML, and popular map-friendly Web services), how to develop tight and efficient mashups with the Ajax API, and how to enrich the mashup experience with the JavaScript-Flash API
Explores map features such as panning and zooming, widgets, markers, overlays, and geocoding
Includes fully implemented and guided mashups featuring flickr, HotJobs, Upcoming.org, real-time weather, traffic, video, and more
From the Back Cover
Your development world is about to greatly expand because of the new wave of Yahoo! Maps APIs. Written by Charles Freedman, a senior Flash developer at Yahoo!, this book provides you with all the information you'll need to know about these APIs in order to build amazing map mashups. You'll find in-depth coverage of Yahoo! mapping tools and technologies and a variety of techniques for working with the APIs.
Yahoo! Maps Mashups explores each API flavor, guiding you through the simple yet comprehensive sets of API calls. This will help you gain a strong understanding of the capabilities of each map technology through its respective API. Freedman also uses each API's uniqueness to explore the basic and advanced set of API methods, classes, and events. With this information, you'll be able to download, install, and develop mashups with one or all of the Yahoo! Maps APIs.
Book Info:
Published in 2007
Published by Wrox
ISBN 0470097787 .
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