One of today’s most used APIs is the Geolocation API. Geolocation allows an application to determine your physical coordinates, and tailor the application to you. This has the potential to dramatically enhance your user experience. This article will show you how to use the Geolocation API together with the Google Maps API. The Google Maps API lets you integrate the Google Maps service with your website. The examples in this article use version 3.10 of the API. The service is completely free, but you should subscribe to the APIs Console website to obtain your API key, and use it when you send a request to the service.
If you need information about how to obtain the key, you can read the. The API key allows you to monitor your application’s usage, and gives Google the chance to get in touch with you if necessary. Keep in mind that the Google Maps API has that you can increase for a fee. This article also assumes a basic understanding of Geolocation, which you can get by reading. An Overview of the Google Maps API This section covers the main classes and methods of the Google Maps API. There are many other objects and methods available, but discussing every aspect of the API is beyond the scope of this article.
The most important and used class of the library is google.maps.Map. The class accepts two parameters that are an HTML element, that will contain the map, and a. The MapOptions objects have many properties, but only the following three are required. center: a google.maps.LatLng object (more on this later) used to set the initial map center. mapTypeId: a google.maps.MapTypeId object, which is used to set the type of the map. For instance, you can see the map as a road map or a satellite map.
Placing multiple markers on a Google Map. { // Asynchronously Load the map API var script. Marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position.
zoom: a positive number that sets the initial zoom of the map.