Historical errata for Google Maps API

404 error on this URL:

http://www.mapmap.org/googlemaps/debug-5.html

A line break after “home of the” in the var coorsFieldHtml definition, on OSX using Firefox, throws a javascript unterminated string literal error. I noticed the break in the downloadable code as well.

infowindowopen() has a typo in the discription: “diplayed”.

On the webpage
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/sdgmapi/index.html it says:
“Google maps isn’t just useful when you’re looking for the nearest pizza parlor…it’s all in this concise guide.”
yet the book doesn’t seem to describe how to implement the “store finder” problem. I’ve done several searches: near, pizza, distance, find, radius.
e.g. http://tinyurl.com/aee96

I think the Pragmatic Prorgrammers might want to change the book description a bit.

—Matt Payne, Matt.G.Payne@Gmail.com

s. I’m really liking the book! I’m happy. I just thought the book would describe how to look for the nearest pizza parlor.

In the text it says: “you can also download the code”. The “download the code” is formatted as a link (it is coloured red), but no link is available when hovering the mouse above it. This on page 6 of the PDF (which says on the header that it is page 2).

You use ’city-ws-proxy.jsp’to pull XML information from various geocoders. Is there anychance you could provide this file in PHP format as well? It would be hugely appreciated ny the PHP community.

“geographically enable web servers” should read “geographically enabled web servers”

“With a little Regular Expression magic, you covert those elements” should read “With a little Regular Expression magic, you can convert those elements”

I find the URLs set in the left margin to be all but illegible, even when I’m reading in full screen mode. More legible and/or larger type would help a lot.

Your sample map at http://www.mapmap.org/googlemaps/debug-2.html does not prodece map info when the button is pushed

I just purchases the book and am very unhappy that your example file are not full function in IE6 or Firefox 1.5

Clicking on the link to download code produces no response.

Google Maps API Version 2.0 has recently been released. There are several methods that have been added, removed, and/or changed. I’m hoping for an update to the pdf book to keep it up to date with the API.

The book states “map.centerAndZoom(), as the name implies, centers the map
on a particular latitude/longitude point and zooms into the
level specified. Google uses a 15 point scale; zoom level 15
will show you the entire world, zoom level 0 is zoomed into the
street level.”

It is actually the reverse zoom level 15 will show you the street level, zoom level 0 is zoomed out to the world level.