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Google Maps

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http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ That is the place to start with on google maps. You get a free key to use for a public web site, non profit etc. You should have some one look over the terms of use but you should have no problems.

Lots of assorted links listed here for now but will soon have notes attached to them about content description, highlights.

Tutorials

http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/

the quickie http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/08/dont-feel-like-coding-embed-map.html http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-maps-api-version-2.html

Special Support KML, shapefile support

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

http://googlemapsbook.com/2006/08/30/shapefiles/

http://www.obviously.com/gis/shp2text/

Portals

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

http://googlesightseeing.com/

http://www.programmableweb.com/code http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/mapping

Examples

http://www.flashearth.com/

http://uwmike.com/maps/manhattan2/

The Map View in here has an advanced menu control http://www.360sardinia.net/itineries.php?tour=34&pos=1&ipix=70506

http://www.52ditu.net/

Related misc

http://www.christine-gis.com/

not sure about… http://www.kamelwriter.com/

need to study this closer… http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/gmlwg

also see: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ (the yahoo user interface), and * http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/index.php he is writing yui-ext, (very good stuff his page is worth looking at, and he gives away the tools he used to build it)

These are the tool that used to build the interface.

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