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008 Working with the Google Maps API

008 Working with the Google Maps API

From the course: View Source

008 Working with the Google Maps API

Hello! This is Ray Villalobos and welcome to View Source! In this episode we'll add a map to your web site with Google's Maps API. So it's now time to View Source. Google has revolutionized the web by providing great services and also APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces that let regular people tie in to those great free services and helps them build their own apps. And one of my favorites is the Google Maps API, which lets anyone add a map on their web site. There're different versions of the Google Maps API that you can use for different purposes. You can see there's a Maps JavaScript API, as well as a Maps API for Flash, Google Earth, and the one that we're going to use today is the Maps Image API, which just lets you put in a simple image with a map on any web site. So if we click on that you can see that there is a description for a lot of the things you can do with the API. The first thing you have to do is choose whether you want to work with the Street View or the…

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