Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax was written to help you take advantage of this technology in your own endeavorswhether you a fan of a play for fun or professional building for profit. This book covers version 2 of the API, including Google's new Geocoding service. Author Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, and Michael Purvis get rolling with examples that require no code at all, but you'll quickly become acquainted with many aspects of the Maps API. They showed a strong method to plan for large data sets simultaneously, create your own map overlays, and harvesting and geocoding sets of addresses. The author even shows you how to build their own geocoder from scratch, for those high-volume batch jobs. And provide hands-on examples of real mapping projects, this book supplies a complete reference for the Maps API, along with relevant aspects of JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL.