Tag: Google Maps
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Moving My Google Maps Mashup to Grails, part two
I made a few improvements to my Google Maps mashup, and though they’re not as significant as the changes made in my previous posts, I still wanted to make a record of them. I discussed in my last post the problem I had exposing my domain objects as JSON strings. To summarize the problem: In…
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Moving My Google Maps Mashup to Grails, part one
The Google Maps API is easy to use. The basic idea is to create a Map2 object (the former GMap2, now known as google.maps.Map2) and add Marker objects to it. The Marker objects then use InfoWindow objects to display all the information for that marker, which can either appear on load, or you can set…
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Moving My Google Maps Mashup to Grails, part zero
I’m not quite ready to make it live on the web yet, but I’ve just about finished porting my Google Maps mashup to Grails. In earlier posts I’ve discussed how I built a Google Maps mashup showing the names and locations of all the courses I’ve taught over the last three years. In its earlier…
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MyEclipse + JPA + Spring + Hibernate = DAO (mostly)
I just about have my Google Maps mashup working. When it’s deployed, it’ll show markers for each location where I’ve taught a course. Eventually I’ll filter them by year, connect them to home with polylines, and maybe more. As a mashup, it’s not the most interesting application ever written, but it’s given me a good…
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Trivial Geocoding with Google and Groovy
I’m building a simple Google Maps mashup that will show where I’ve given classes over the past few years. It’s not much, but it’s an easy demonstration of the technology and, even better, an easy way for me to learn the Google Maps API and to play with Groovy some more. As for Google Maps,…