Articles Tagged 'google maps'

How to use Google Maps Street View

 Posted in: Tutorials • Written by: Irina Borozan • November 3rd, 2010

This is my fourth tutorial covering features of the Google Maps API v3. This time I will show you how to use the street view service. I have built an app for this tutorial, an interactive visit of Paris. You’ll be able to visit certain locations, walk through Paris or take virtual tours.

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How to Build a Distance Finder with Google Maps API (Part-2)

 Posted in: Tutorials • Written by: Irina Borozan • July 2nd, 2010

In the first part of this tutorial we’ve built a distance finder using google maps. To build our app we’ve used the newest google maps api version, v3. Our distance finder lets the user write two addresses, shows them on a map, shows the route between them and computes the route’s length. Today, we will make some improvements to our distance finder and learn some other features of google maps!

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How to Build a Distance Finder with Google Maps API

 Posted in: Tutorials • Written by: Irina Borozan • June 29th, 2010

Google maps is a free web mapping service application provided by Google. It offers lots of cool features (showing various map types, plotting points, showing routes, geocoding addresses). You can also add all these features to your website using the Google Maps APIs provided by Google. In this tutorial I will show you how to add some of these features to your site. I will be using the Google Maps Javascript API v3 (the newest version).

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