Google - Firebrand's training for Google Cloud Maps API Developer

Curriculum

You will cover the following content in the Google Maps API Developer Course:

Introduction and overview

• Understanding maps
• Importance and history of Latitude and Longitude
• Satelitte imagery
• The importance of applying maps in modern applications
• How it all works

Overview of new services

• Difference between Google API V2 and V3, and understanding the emerging mobile technology market

Getting started

• How to create a simple static map through Latitude and Longitude co-ordinates
• Understanding output
• JSON and XML
• Understanding KML
• Working with JSON and XML
• Understanding Ajax
• Adding Points
• Adding Polygons and polylines
• Polyline Geodesic
• Polyline Encoding
• Polygon and Tile Overlays
• Map Polygon Simple
• Ground Overlay Layers
• Tile Detector
• Positioning
• Event driven Maps
• Adding Control
• Adding drag and drop
• Adding graphics
• Custom Overlays
• Exporting via KML

Javascript tools

• Specifying a New Location
• Separating Code from Content
• Cleaning Up
• Basic User Interaction
• Using Map Control Widgets
• Creating Markers
• Detecting Marker Clicks
• Opening the Info Window
• A List of Points
• Using Arrays and Objects
• Iterating
• Implimenting a simple SQL database and server to store data
• Interacting with and storing data on the Server
• Interacting with Google Documents. Storing and creating data

Adding Interactivity

• Creating the Map and Marking Points
• Listening to User Events
• Asking for More Information with an Info Window
• Creating an Info Window on the Map
• Embedding a Form into the Info Window
• Avoiding an Ambiguous State
• Controlling the Info Window Size
• Implementing Ajax

Using Google's Ajax Object

• Parsing the JSON Structure
• Parsing XML structure
• Retrieving Markers from the Server
• Adding Some Flair
• Geocoding Addresses
• Geocoding Extraction
• Geocoding Reverse
• Geocoding Cache
• GeoXML RSS
• GeoXML KML

Adding Traffic Overlay

• Creating a route finder
• Directions Advanced
• Streetview Interaction
• Creating a Streetview Object
• The Streetview Layer
• Streetview Data

Creating a model with geocoding functionality

• Building a Store Location Map

Manipulating Third-Party Data

• Third-Party data
• Introduction to YQL
• Using YQL to extract data

Improving the User Interface

• CSS: A Touch of Style
• Maximizing Your Map
• Adding Hovering Toolbars
• Creating Collapsible Side Panels
• Scripted Style
• Switching Up the Body Classes
• Resizing with the Power of JavaScript
• Populating the Side Panel
• Getting Side Panel Feedback
• Data Point Filtering
• RJS and Draggable Toolbars
• RJS Templates and Partials
• Draggable Toolbars
• Optimizing and Scaling for Large Data Sets

Understanding the Limitations

• Streamlining Server-Client Communications
• Optimizing Server-Side Processing
• Server-Side Boundary Method
• Server-Side Common-Point Method
• Server-Side Clustering
• Custom Detail Overlay Method
• Custom Tile Method
• Optimizing the Client-Side User Experience

Advanced Tips and Tricks

• Debugging Maps
• Interacting with the Map from the API
• Helping You Find Your Place
• Force Triggering Events with GEvent
• Creating Your Own Events
• Creating Map Objects with GOverlay
• Choosing the Pane for the Overlay
• Creating a Quick Tool Tip Overlay
• Creating Custom Controls
• Creating the Control Object
• Creating the Container
• Positioning the Container
• Using the Control
• Adding Tabs to Info Windows
• Creating a Tabbed Info Window
• Gathering Info Window Information and Changing Tabs
• Creating a Custom Info Window
• Creating the Overlay Object and Containers
• Drawing a LittleInfoWindow
• Implementing Your Own Map Type, Tiles, and Projection
• GMapType: Gluing It Together
• GProjection: Locating Where Things Are
• GTileLayer: Viewing Images
• The Blue Marble Map: Putting It All Together

Multiple Waypoints

• Yahoo! Maps Building Block APIs
• Sample Data from Government Sources
• Sources of Raw GIS Data

Building a Geocoding Service

• Geo Location
• Understanding how Geo location works
• The importance of geo location with mobile phone technology and wireless networks
• How to geo locate a device. The geo location class
• Introduction to Google gears and Google latitude
• Detecting a mobile device
• Displaying maps and data on mobile devices