The main feature provided by the Google maps API, is the ability to convert an human readable location, such “Milan, Italy” to a geographic location represented by latitude and longitude, this process is called geocoding. The GClientGeocoder is the class which provide this service, through the method getLatLng() which accepts two arguments: a string representing an address and a callback function that will be called once the coordinates are retrieved. If the address will be successful located, the callback function will be invoked by passing a GLatLng object as argument, otherwise the function will receive a null. GLatLng is an object which represents a geographic location (latitude and longitude).
To request a geolocation for a given address we use a similar code:
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Ok, as announced in the previous post, let’s start to analyze how to work with Google maps (Javascript) API.
Preface: while I was writing I have been a little too verbose, so I won’t respect the previously declared steps, but I will add/modify them while posting.
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