Historical errata for Google Maps API

I’d really really really really appreciate white page backgrounds as an option. I like to print these books out so I can read sections of them offline, but the grey background sucks up the toner and makes it harder to read.

When I down load and run this file (after putting in my API), I get the following message.

Line: 148
Char: 1
Error: "GLatLng’ is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://debian/phpmap/cities.html

When I run the file from your website.\\,

I get a similar error at line 159, character 4

I am hosting on Apache2, and using IE 6.2800.1106 in Windows 2000 SP4.

Any suggestions

dvrichard@hotmail.com

GOverviewMap should be GOverviewMapControl

Example:
map.addControl(new GOverviewMap()); //Won’t work
map.addControl(new GOverviewMapControl()); //Does work

The file 5 button doesn’t seem to work. I’m using Mac OS X Preview. The file 4 button does work for me (although the file 4 button on page 10 loads the URL: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/sdgmapi2/code/code/5a.html ).

I appreciate that the description said that this item was not in a printable condition, but I did not realize how true that was. A version more suitable for printing would be great. At least a white background would help, as suggested earlier.

Description of GLatLngBounds is misleading. It is not array (at least is not accesible via []). To get coordinates You should use getNorthEast() and getSouthWest() methods. More details: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GLatLngBounds

“Another free geocoder is available at brainoff.com/worldkits”

Should read brainoff.com/worldkit (note the singular)

“Isn’t nice that adding…”

Should read

“Isn’t it nice that adding…”

Section 8.3 paragraph 4 states that Google does not have a geocoder available for use, which is incorrect.

Google Maps API does provide a geocoding service, see “geocoding examples” in the official api doc.

I really enjoyed Scott’s writing in this document. But I would argue that it is not quite fully updated for the Maps API v2.

He should have mentioned the Marker Manager and Geocoding.

Just a suggestion:

“We can send down little pieces of data as the user request it, all behind the scenes.”

should probably read,

“We can send down little pieces of data as the user requests them, all behind the scenes.”

The companion web site www.mapmap.org/googlemaps has been down for over a week. Making the ‘book’ of limited value.

Mapmap.org is still down; I note that someone else filed a similar complaint at some point, so I don’t know if this is an on-and-off problem or a constant problem. In either case it’s annoying since I want to see the full code.

mapmap.org is not working! very frustrating.

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.0.47 (Fedora) Server at www.mapmap.org Port 80

The URL under the Simple Examples heading is a deal link.

mapInfo = document.getElementById(“mapInfo”);

should be

var mapInfo = document.getElementById(“mapInfo”);

After the example script tag, I’m guessing that the “&ldots;” was intended to render as “…”

Hello. Links are broken in this book