Yahoo! Maps Mashups

Written by Charles Freedman, a senior Flash developer at Yahoo!, this book provides you with all the information you'll need to know about APIs in order to build amazing map mashups. You'll find in-depth coverage of Yahoo! mapping tools and technologies and a variety of techniques for working with the APIs. Yahoo! Maps Mashups explores each API flavor, guiding you through the simple yet comprehensive sets of API calls so that you will gain a strong understanding of the capabilities of each map technology through its respective API.

Your development world is about to greatly expand because of the new wave of Yahoo! Maps APIs. Written by Charles Freedman, a senior Flash developer at Yahoo!, this book provides you with all the information you''ll need to know about these APIs in order to build amazing map mashups. You''ll find in-depth coverage of Yahoo! mapping tools and technologies and a variety of techniques for working with the APIs.

Yahoo! Maps Mashups explores each API flavor, guiding you through the simple yet comprehensive sets of API calls. This will help you gain a strong understanding of the capabilities of each map technology through its respective API. Freedman also uses each API''s uniqueness to explore the basic and advanced set of API methods, classes, and events. With this information, you''ll be able to download, install, and develop mashups with one or all of the Yahoo! Maps APIs.

What you will learn from this book

• All about each Yahoo! Maps API and the technology that drives it
• How to build mashups featuring popular web services like Flickr; Hot Jobs; Yahoo! Travel; local, real-time traffic; and video
• How to easily adapt from Ajax to the JS-Flash API
• Techniques for building Flex 2 mashups by using the AS-Flash API
• How to use map features such as panning and zooming, markers, overlays, and geocoding

Who this book is for

This book is for Web developers who have some experience with languages and technologies such as HTML, JavaScript/Ajax, XML, or Flash/ActionScript. Everything in the book is explained in detail along with source code, which makes this a useful resource regardless of your experience level.

Charles Freedman is a Senior Flash Developer for Yahoo! with a communications degree in film and television from Boston University. His development approach combines an education in multimedia with expertise and passion for building engaging and intuitive applications and content.
In recent years, Charles has produced some of the most highly visible Flash platform work, leading development for Yahoo! Maps and deploying modules for the home pages of eBay, eBay China and Fidelity. Born in Boston, Charles relocated with his wife Jamie to sunny Santa Clara, California, to join Yahoo! in 2005. Still a season ticket holder, he plans many trips back East to see his beloved Red Sox win another World Series.