• Allgemein
• API
• Application
• EarthAndMap
• Forum
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Literature
• MailingLists
• Papers
• Presentations
• Programming
• Samples
• Support
• SVG
• Tools
• Tutorial
• Tutorials
• Virtual Earth
• World Wind
• Yahoo Maps

Allgemein

• Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications
• Phoogle Maps
  PHP class, written by Justin Johnson of system7designs, that integrates itself with the Google Maps API and with the geocoder.us database to make an easy to use interface to display Google Maps on your site.
• KLM Tutorial
• Documentation for Yahoo! Maps Web Services

API

• Encoded Polylines

Application

• Post your photos with a click on the map

EarthAndMap

• Cereating Google Maps WFS Interface

Forum

• Deutsche Google Earth Community
  bietet Ihnen Infos, Hilfe, Software, hacks und jede Menge Sat-Fotos rund um die fantastische (!) Google-Earth-Software.

Google Earth

• Google Maps overlay for Google Earth

Google Maps

• Google Maps API Documentation
• Google Maps API – Forum
• Geographic Message Board
• ZeeMaps
• guestMap
• Reading/writing markers for Google Maps from a MySQL database
• Conversion from Google Maps URL to Google Earth
  Online Tool
• Google Maps EZ – made easy!
  Google Maps EZ makes it easy to put Google maps on any web page without writing a single line of Javascript. It uses standard HTML syntax with a few special keywords in a way that allows search engines to index the map contents. And it’s all free!
• MapRoom
• How To Overlay Custom Maps Using the Google Maps API

Literature

• NASA World Wind kompakt
  … bietet einen sehr gelungenen Einstieg in World Wind, einen virtuellen 3D-Globus auf Open-Source Basis
• Google Maps Application Development: From Novice to Professional
  … eine sehr gute, aber auch anspruchsvolle Einführung
• Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax
  Die Autoren gehen in 7 Kapiteln auf alle Aspekte der Programmierung von Google Maps ein. Es werden u.a. Verfahren zur Datenbankkommunikation, zur Umwandlung von Adressen in Koordinaten und zur ansprechenden Darstellung der Ergebnisse vorgestellt.

MailingLists

• Google Maps for Mobile Devices
• Google-Maps-API
• Encoded Polylines discussion thread

Papers

• Killer Maps
  an excellent story not only highlighting Google Earth, but also talking about the interfaces (APIs) Google and other mapping tools are creating allowing programmers to customize the maps.
• Mobile Google Maps with GPS
• Die digitale Erde – die Vision wird Wirklichkeit
  Mit der Studie setzt sich Martin Soutschek in einem sehr instruktiven, zwölfseitigen Beitrag mit „Google Earth“ auseinander.
• Bleisch & Annen: NASA World Wind und Google Earth
• Hackers Tap Into the Functionality and Simplicity of Google Maps
  some fine examples of Google map hacks and some pointers on creating your own google map hack
• Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API
  includes a comparision betweeen Google maps API and Yahoo maps API
• Virtual globes: The web-wide world
• How does Google Earth work?
• Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins
• Integration Architecture Google with WFS Web Services
• Introducing Google’s Geocoding Service
• Google Maps für die Website: Webanwendungen mit Landkarten
• Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format – Google’s Description
  The encoding process converts a binary value into a series of character codes for ASCII characters using the familiar base64 encoding scheme.
• Encoding polylines for Google Maps
  presents and implements code to translate a sequence of latitude/longitude pairs to an encoded polyline for display by a Google Map with JavaScript and Perl.
• Google Maps Talk by Lars Elstrup Rassmussen
  Lars Elstrup Rasmussen, the lead engineer of Google Maps, gave a talk at the University of Sydney
• Stadtinformationssystem Augsburg unter Verwendung von Virtual Earth
  Vortrag von Christian Rinner bei der AgA-Tagung, Karlsruhe 2007

Presentations

• OpenstreetMaps Presentation
  Presentation about the concept and idea of participatory mapping by the founder of OpenStreetMaps Steve Coast

Programming

• Class: GMapBuilder

Samples

• Countries and territories of the world
• Geokoordinaten aus Wikipedia für Google Earth
• Kurorte in Deutschland
  Karte- und Kurorte
• Shaded SRTM relief map of the world as google maps mashup

Support

• http://www.vianovis.de/de/google_earth.htm

SVG

• Google Maps API hacks on SVG-path objects

Tools

• MI2Google
  converts MapInfo map objects from one or more visible layers within a Mapinfo map window to a Google Earth KML file.
• Overlaying Google Map with MapInfo point data
  generates a complete HTML page which integrates Google’s Map object overlayed with point data from a MapInfo table
• PHP Class Phoogle Maps
  This class can be used to show maps of locations using Geocoder Web service API to determine the latitude and longitude coordinates of a given United States address and Google Maps Javascript API to display maps of the locations.
• JShape Ways to Use Google Map API
  Google Map Control Panel
• Google Maps API and WMS Servers
• Tools for GoogleEarth Free
  great!
• JShape Google Map Script
  allows to create a Google Map based on geo-data in Shape format
• Mapstraction
  Abstraction library for different mapping APIs

Tutorial

• Mashup Mania with Google Maps

Tutorials

• A geocode batch with google api with php/mysql
• Tracert Map: View the IP network path on a map
  This utility geo-locates the IP addresses on the path of a network packet in an IP network and displays them on a map.
• Yahoo! Hacks
  RSS/ATOM reader for PHP 5.1, Flickr PHP5 API, V3 DHTML Yahoo! Map
• GeoCool!
  PHP / Yahoo! Geocoding Tutorial

Virtual Earth

• MS Virtual Earth
• MS Virtual EarthClass Reference
  The quickstart samples provide you with an easy introduction to the basic features of Virtual Earth in litterally a few lines of code. Each sample includes copy-pastable code and an explanation of how it works to get you up to speed fast.
• MS Virtual Earth QuickStart Samples
  The class reference lists each member of the VE_MapControl class, with an explanation of what the member does, the member’s signature and a listing of the arguments required.
• MS Virtual Earth Starter Kit
  Currently there is only the ASP.NET Starter Kit which provides a working sample of the VE_MapSearchControl, complete with the required proxy pages.
• Creating your first Virtual Earth web page
  This article aims to help understand how to get started using the Virtual Earth Map Control.

World Wind

• NASA’s World Wind
• World Wind Central
  official knowledge base and support site for NASA World Wind

Yahoo Maps

• How to use the Yahoo Maps API
  This mini-tutorial outlines the basic steps to get something up and running.
• Notes on implementing location based search
  deals with geocoding with Yahoo’s Map API