Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from the developer perspective, showing you how you can integrate mapping features into Web-driven Rails application. Proceeding far beyond a simple map display, you will learn how to draw from various data sources such as the United States Census Bureau TIGER / Line data and Googles own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping locations around the world. The book also takes you through various examples that show how to encourage user interaction such as through the determination of the location map, add comments, and build community-based maps. Youll want to pick up a copy of this book because This is the first book to comprehensively introduce the Google Maps application development using the Rails development framework.