Google Maps API
The recently announced Google Maps API allows users to incorporate the Google Maps technology into a custom website. This has become a very popular of showing geographic information online.
The following samples are currently online
| Who locations map | This is a PHP script that dynamically creates the javascript for the Google Maps API and loads points with descriptions from a MySQL database. A static version, using an XML file that holds the locations and descriptions is also possible, but the database solution is more elegant. Essentially any kind of information with a lat/lon component can be shown in this manner. |
| SubFinder |
Like Geochat, this is a combination of a PHP script and a MySQL database. Stored in the database are the locations of the markers, the texts and url's for the info windows and a type of marker to be placed. Users can add their own markers and comments to the map. |
| Geochat | A combination of a PHP script and a MySQL database. Users can add their own markers and comments to the map. This is a great tool for collaborative efforts |
| Reading polylines from database |
A sample that reads a set of polylines from a MySQL database and displays them on a map. |
In addition to these samples there's also a number of tutorials:
| Reading point locations from a MySQL database using PHP | v2 |
| Reading and writing point locations to and from a MySQL database using PHP (temporarily offline) | |
| Reading polylines stored in a MySQL database using PHP | v2 |
Custom Google Maps applications, developed for our clients, include:
Ferienregion Vinschgau, Italy
For this Italian tourism site, Red Geographics developed a Google Maps application that displays maps of their bike routes, along with the elevation profile. Both the line on the map and the profile are generated on-the-fly.
Seawead, USA
Red Geographics developed a Google Maps application for this Alaska wildlife preservation organisation that allowed them to track sightings of endangered amphibians and reptiles along the Alaska coast.
Other applications which were not developed by Red Geographics but for which support was offered:
Index : Google Maps API Overview