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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
Languages
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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 Fusion Tables layers to maps


Fusion Tables (http://tables.googlelabs.com/) is an experimental tool provided by Google to store different types of tabular data. Fusion Tables is important for geo developers because it supports feature types such as points, polylines, and polygons. There is also support for geocoding of the address, place names, or countries that make Fusion Tables a powerful database for your features. Fusion Tables also has an API so that developers can connect it to different applications. There are some limitations in Fusion Tables but these limitations are enough for most developers.

The OpenStreetMap POI database can be downloaded via different sources. We downloaded the restaurant POI database of Switzerland in the KML format and imported it into Fusion Tables. There are 7967 points in this table. In this recipe, we will use this table as a sample to help us visualize.

The map view of the Switzerland POI database of restaurants can be seen using Fusion Tables as...

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