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Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

You're reading from  Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698825
Pages 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Google Maps JavaScript API Basics 2. Adding Raster Layers 3. Adding Vector Layers 4. Working with Controls 5. Understanding Google Maps JavaScript API Events 6. Google Maps JavaScript Libraries 7. Working with Services 8. Mastering the Google Maps JavaScript API through Advanced Recipes Index

Adding KML/GeoRSS layers

Keyhole Markup Language (KML) has been introduced in Google Earth, which was originally named Keyhole Earth Viewer before Google bought it. KML became an OGC standard in 2008. It is an XML notation for showing features in geo-enabled viewers. GeoRSS is also an emerging standard for sharing Earth features to show in geo-enabled viewers mostly used by web feeds or services. Both these standards can be consumable with the Google Maps JavaScript API.

In this recipe, dynamic services will be consumed via the Google Maps JavaScript API. We will use the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) web services to show recent earthquakes on maps. These services are updated regularly to reflect recent events.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the simple map recipe introduced in Chapter 1, Google Maps JavaScript API Basics, as a template.

The source code of this recipe is at Chapter 3/ch03_kml_georss.html.

How to do it…

You can add your KML/GeoRSS files to your map if you perform the...

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