Google Maps Primer Tutorial

Google Maps Primer Tutorial

Google Maps Primer Tutorial

Google Maps is an incredible application with functionality to supplement Google Earth Primer Tutorial as shown below. Google Maps has a great many uses for all the ways in life you use maps, or the “where” questions you have. Let’s see what Wikipedia says about Google Maps below.

Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit,[1] and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API.[2] It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta), or with public transportation and a locator for urban businesses in numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time, but rather they are several months or years old.[citation needed]

Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.

Google Maps for mobile runs on smartphones with over 54% of users using it between April-June 2013.[3]

It strikes me that if you like Google Maps and/or Google Earth, one day you should see if you can play the computer game Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Let’s see some use of Google Maps in live action supervised by some PHP and HTML and Javascript to help out.

Link to downloadable PHP programming source code you could rename to placemap.php

Link to Google Maps information … via Wikipedia, as is the quote above.
Link to Google Maps “spiritual home” … via Google.


Previous relevant Google Earth Primer Tutorial shown below.

Google Earth Primer Tutorial

Google Earth Primer Tutorial

Google Earth is an incredible application which, maybe, should be taken in doses, otherwise you’ll know too much about where you’re going on holidays, and it’ll be like dΓ©jΓ  vu all over again. As you may have guessed from the title Google Earth is a 3-D view of Mars … sorry, Earth … using wonderful maps and photographs and videos and people’s knowledge, which makes it a great tool for research or to plan your travel, or to reminisce about travel, or to go travelling in the mind. You may have heard of Google Maps as well, where you see maps of various sorts and directional information to get to where you are going quite smoothly, and one day we may do a tutorial on this as well. Let’s look at the incredibly interesting Wikipedia entry for Google Earth below.

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded company acquired by Google in 2004 (see In-Q-Tel). It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It was available under three different licenses, two currently: Google Earth, a free version with limited function; Google Earth Plus (discontinued),[4][5] which included additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($399 per year), which is intended for commercial use.[6]

The product, re-released as Google Earth in 2005, is currently available for use on personal computers running Windows 2000 and above, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above, Linux kernel: 2.6 or later (released on June 12, 2006), and FreeBSD. Google Earth is also available as a browser plugin which was released on May 28, 2008.[7] It was also made available for mobile viewers on the iPhone OS on October 28, 2008, as a free download from the App Store, and is available to Android users as a free app in the Google Play store. In addition to releasing an updated Keyhole based client, Google also added the imagery from the Earth database to their web-based mapping software, Google Maps. The release of Google Earth in June 2005 to the public caused a more than tenfold increase in media coverage on virtual globes between 2004 and 2005,[8] driving public interest in geospatial technologies and applications. As of October 2011, Google Earth has been downloaded more than a billion times.[9][10]

For other parts of the surface of the Earth, 3D images of terrain and buildings are available. Google Earth uses digital elevation model (DEM) data collected by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).[11] This means one can view the whole earth in three dimensions. Since November 2006, the 3D views of many mountains, including Mount Everest, have been improved by the use of supplementary DEM data to fill the gaps in SRTM coverage.[12]

Many people use the applications to add their own data, making them available through various sources, such as the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) or blogs mentioned in the link section below. Google Earth is able to show all kinds of images overlaid on the surface of the earth and is also a Web Map Service client. Google Earth supports managing three-dimensional Geospatial data through Keyhole Markup Language (KML).[13]

It strikes me that if you like Google Earth, one day you should see if you can play the computer game Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Let’s see some use of Google Earth in action for an already installed Windows scenario and then for an installation and usage on a Mac laptop.

Link to Google Earth “spiritual home” … via Google.

Think of travel to Norway or Fez.

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