Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

<h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="THLToolboxhomegtPlacesampGeographygtGoogleMaps" class="anchorpoint"></a><a href="/tools/wiki/home.html">THL Toolbox</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Places%20%26%20Geography.html">Places & Geography</a> > Google Maps</h3><p class="paragraph"> </p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="GoogleMaps" class="anchorpoint"></a>Google Maps</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s)</strong>:</p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.google.com/apis/maps/</a></span> That is the place to start with on google maps. You get a free key to use for a public web site, non profit etc. You should have some one look over the terms of use but you should have no problems.</p><p class="paragraph">Lots of assorted links listed here for now but will soon have notes attached to them about content description, highlights. </p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="Tutorials" class="anchorpoint"></a>Tutorials</h3><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph">the quickie <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/08/dont-feel-like-coding-embed-map.html" target="rwikiexternal">http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/08/dont-feel-like-coding-embed-map.html</a></span> <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-maps-api-version-2.html" target="rwikiexternal">http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-maps-api-version-2.html</a></span> </p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="SpecialSupportKMLshapefilesupport" class="anchorpoint"></a>Special Support KML, shapefile support</h3><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/" target="rwikiexternal">http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://googlemapsbook.com/2006/08/30/shapefiles/" target="rwikiexternal">http://googlemapsbook.com/2006/08/30/shapefiles/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.obviously.com/gis/shp2text/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.obviously.com/gis/shp2text/</a></span> </p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="Portals" class="anchorpoint"></a>Portals</h3><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/" target="rwikiexternal">http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://googlesightseeing.com/" target="rwikiexternal">http://googlesightseeing.com/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/code" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.programmableweb.com/code</a></span> <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/mapping" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/mapping</a></span> </p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="Examples" class="anchorpoint"></a>Examples</h3><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.flashearth.com/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.flashearth.com/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://uwmike.com/maps/manhattan2/" target="rwikiexternal">http://uwmike.com/maps/manhattan2/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph">The Map View in here has an advanced menu control <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.360sardinia.net/itineries.php?tour=34&pos=1&ipix=70506" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.360sardinia.net/itineries.php?tour=34&pos=1&ipix=70506</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.52ditu.net/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.52ditu.net/</a></span> </p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="Relatedmisc" class="anchorpoint"></a>Related misc</h3><p class="paragraph"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.christine-gis.com/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.christine-gis.com/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph">not sure about… <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.kamelwriter.com/" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.kamelwriter.com/</a></span></p><p class="paragraph">need to study this closer… <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/gmlwg" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/gmlwg</a></span></p><p class="paragraph"> also see: <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/" target="rwikiexternal">http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/</a></span> (the yahoo user interface), and * <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/index.php" target="rwikiexternal">http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/index.php</a></span> he is writing yui-ext, (very good stuff his page is worth looking at, and he gives away the tools he used to build it)</p><p class="paragraph">These are the tool that used to build the interface. </p><h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="ProvidedforunrestrictedusebythespanclassnobrimgsrcsakairwikitoolimagesicklearrowgifaltexternallinktitleexternallinkahrefhttpwwwthdlorgtargetrwikiexternalTibetanandHimalayanLibraryaspan" class="anchorpoint"></a><em class="italic">Provided for unrestricted use by the <span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="http://www.thdl.org" target="rwikiexternal">Tibetan and Himalayan Library</a></span></em></h3>