In this series of workshops/lectures held in the Googleplex, we'll dive into a different tool or feature of the Google Geo Developer offerings each time. The series is open to Javascript geeks or GIS junkies alike - we just ask that you be enthusiastic and willing to learn (bring your laptops)! For those people not in the local area, we'll upload videos of the events to Youtube.
As details are finalized, events will be announced on this mailing list. Registration is no longer necessary.
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Upcoming events:
None! Subscribe to the mailing list to find out when the next series begins!
Past Events:
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Feb. 20 @6pm: Quick & Dirty KML Creation
In this hands-on workshop, Googlers Mano Marks and Pamela Fox will show how to
use tools within Google Maps and Google Earth to create, import, and
edit KML.
They'll also show a quick integration of KML in the Maps
API, and talk about when simple KML creation should be used in favor or
more programmatic techniques.
This workshop is useful for developers who haven't had a chance to play with the Maps or Earth creation tools yet, and are looking for quick ways to create and share geo-data.
Participants should bring their laptops and install Google Earth prior to the event.
Watch this session on YouTube!
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Feb. 27 @6pm: Creating Custom Maps
In this talk, developer John Coryat (of maps.huge.info and usnaviguide.com) will discuss the various techniques for creating custom maps in the Maps API,
and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Demonstrations will include examples using a custom extension he wrote for overlaying images, and several examples of custom tile layers.
This talk will be very useful for
developers debating how to display large amounts of information on a
map (especially polygonal data), or developers interested in creating
custom maps from existing tiles (such as mapwow.com).
Watch this session on YouTube! | View the PDF of this session's slides!
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March 5 @6pm: GigaPan In-Depth
Randy Sargent and Ted Morse of GigaPan.org
will be speaking about their website, which allows users to upload,
share, and explore brilliant gigapixel+ panoramas from around the
globe. GigaPan provides a layer of these high resolution photographs in
Google Earth in the form of PhotoOverlays. Randy will discuss the
following topics:
- How to upload to gigapan website
- How to annotate panoramas
- An overview of GigaPan capture process
- The GigaPan photo stitching process
- The interactive placement of a panorama in Google Earth
- Tips on using PhotoOverlays
Watch this session on Youtube! | View the PDF of this session's slides!
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March 12 @6pm: Dynamic KML
Googler Mano Marks will be demonstrating techniques for
using view based refresh (VBR) and other dynamic querying techniques in
KML. He will show how it works in Google Earth and Google Maps, and
talk about server-side coding techniques for generating the KML. This talk will be very useful for
developers who want to use servers to store data, and show subsets to
their users based on what is displayed in their viewport or browser.
Watch this session on Youtube!
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March 26 @6pm: Mars, Moon, and Sky Maps
We recently released various out-of-this-world map tiles in the Maps API: Mars, Moon, and Sky. The engineer responsible for them, Noel Gorelick, will talk about where the imagery came from, how to use them, and how to work with the coordinate conversions, and alternate projections in maps.
Watch this session on Youtube! | View these session's slides!
- April 2 @6pm: Mapping the Votes (Building the Google election maps)
- Use the same code for a mapplet, a Google Gadget, and a Maps API map
- Turn shapefiles into map tiles, polygons, and markers
- Collect voting results into JSON objects
- Marker madness - can we make it fast enough?
- Hosting on Google Code and Amazon S3
- A custom Twitter map using Jabber to track keywords
Michael Geary, the external developer responsible for building the Google election maps, will discuss the following: