Recently, there has seen increasing interest in developing online map services using Google Maps Application Programming Interface (API), Yahoo! Maps API, Microsoft Bing Maps API, Nokia Ovi Maps API, and ESRI ArcGIS API. Application developers utilize Maps API as a platform and combine spatial data from multiple sources to create new customized services – a buzzword commonly called map “mashups...

We present a system that displays a curriculum vitae with a map to understand people. Our method is based on the following processes: (1) creating curriculum vitae using related work [1], (2) extracting the names of places where the person studied and worked from the vitae, (3) getting such location information as latitudes, longitudes, and addresses from the place names using Google Maps API, ...

This paper reports an explanatory study of using Google Map API to develop two destinationspecific tourist information tools: a handheld tour guide and an online trip planner for Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The background, development, functionality, and adoption issues were discussed. The handheld tour guide is based on mobile phones with a GPS antenna to communicate with Google Map and d...

The intent of this project is to develop methods that will eventually be used to support mobile collaboration. This project uses the Google Maps API along with additional JavaScript code to produce a map-based interface that supports drawing with either a mouse or a user’s finger. Map Features, a means of organizing information on a map by its spatial locality, have also been developed. These t...

Geospatial applications are becoming indispensible part of information systems, they provides detailed information’s regarding the attribute data of spatial objects in real world. Due to the rapid technological developments in web based geographical information systems, the uses of web based geospatial application varies from Geotagging to Geolocation capabilities. Therefore, effective utilizat...