Maps API Developer

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The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.
Students will learn how to make maps with clickable markers, apply good CSS and JavaScript coding practices, also how to use multiple geocoding web services to translate physical addresses into latitudes and longitudes, and utilise location data in their application.
This Google Maps API training course will cover topics related to scalability, including marker clustering and on-the-fly image rendering techniques to display thousands of points on the map.

Delivery:
  • In house
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Further Details


Advanced topics include: building your own info windows and tooltips, creating your own map tiles, and utilising publicly available census data to populate your own geocoding database.
Our Google Maps API Developer Training Course:


  • Allows you to achieve your certifications in a fraction of the time of 'traditional training' while delivering industry-leading exam passing percentages

  • Helps students grasp complex technical concepts more easily by identifying and catering to individual student learning styles through a mixed visual, auditory and kinaesthetic-tactual delivery system

  • Enhances retention by employing accelerated learning techniques focused on committing information to long-term memory












Google - Maps API Developer - Benefits
Other training providers rely heavily on lecture, self-testing and self-study.
Our approach is highly varied and interactive to keep your attention, promote teamwork, and reinforce knowledge gained through hands-on learning.
You will:
Be Immersed into a distraction-free environment - escaping your normal routine and focusing purely on learning.
Experience Accelerated Learning methods – designed to help you learn much more quickly, spend less time out of the office, and see returns from your investment straight away.
Be Measured through on-site exam testing - creating a complete feedback loop that ensures you understand the subject thoroughly.
With Firebrand Training, you will learn more.
This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.







Google - Maps API Developer - Curriculum
You will cover the following content in the Google Maps API Developer Course:
Google Maps and Rails

  • KML: Your First Map

  • Google My Maps: Your Second Map

  • Adding Points

  • Adding Polygons and ploylines

  • Exporting via KML

  • Got Rails?


Getting Started

  • On JavaScript, Helpers, and Plug-ins

  • Creating Your Rails Application

  • The First Map

  • Keying Up

  • Examining the Sample Map

  • Specifying a New Location

  • Separating Code from Content

  • Cleaning Up

  • Basic User Interaction

  • Using Map Control Widgets

  • Creating Markers

  • Detecting Marker Clicks

  • Opening the Info Window

  • A List of Points

  • Using Arrays and Objects

  • Iterating


Interacting with the User and the Server

  • Adding Interactivity

  • Going on a Treasure Hunt

  • Reviewing Application Structure

  • Building on Your Application

  • Creating a New Controller

  • Creating a Marker Model and Migration

  • Creating the Database, Connecting via Rails, and Running the Migration

  • Creating the Map View

  • Creating the Map and Marking Points

  • Listening to User Events

  • Asking for More Information with an Info Window

  • Creating an Info Window on the Map

  • Embedding a Form into the Info Window

  • Avoiding an Ambiguous State

  • Controlling the Info Window Size

  • Implementing Ajax

  • Google's GXmlHttp vs. Prototype's Ajax.Request

  • Using Google's Ajax Object

  • Saving Data with GXmlHttp

  • Parsing the JSON Structure

  • Retrieving Markers from the Server

  • Adding Some Flair

  • Ajax with Prototype


Geocoding Addresses

  • Introducing GeoKit

  • functionality provided by GeoKit

  • Installing the GeoKit plugin

  • Configuring GeoKit

  • Creating a model with geocoding functionality

  • Using Geocoding Web Services

  • Server-side vs client-side geocoding

  • The Google JavaScript Geocoder

  • The Google Maps API Geocoder

  • The Yahoo Geocoding API

  • Geocoder.us

  • Geocoder.ca

  • Services for Geocoding Addresses Outside Google's Coverage

  • Building a Store Location Map


Manipulating Third-Party Data

  • Using Downloadable Text Files

  • Downloading the Database

  • Working with Files

  • Correlating and Importing the Data

  • Using Your New Database Schema

  • Screen Scraping

  • Our Scraping Tool: scrAPI

  • Screen Scraping Considerations


Improving the User Interface

  • CSS: A Touch of Style

  • Maximizing Your Map

  • Adding Hovering Toolbars

  • Creating Collapsible Side Panels

  • Scripted Style

  • Switching Up the Body Classes

  • Resizing with the Power of JavaScript

  • Populating the Side Panel

  • Getting Side Panel Feedback

  • Data Point Filtering

  • RJS and Draggable Toolbars

  • RJS Templates and Partials

  • Draggable Toolbars


Optimizing and Scaling for Large Data Sets

  • Understanding the Limitations

  • Streamlining Server-Client Communications

  • Optimizing Server-Side Processing

  • Server-Side Boundary Method

  • Server-Side Common-Point Method

  • Server-Side Clustering

  • Custom Detail Overlay Method

  • Custom Tile Method

  • Optimizing the Client-Side User Experience

  • Client-Side Clustering

  • Further Client-Side Optimizations


Advanced Tips and Tricks

  • Debugging Maps

  • Interacting with the Map from the API

  • Helping You Find Your Place

  • Force Triggering Events with GEvent

  • Creating Your Own Events

  • Creating Map Objects with GOverlay

  • Choosing the Pane for the Overlay

  • Creating a Quick Tool Tip Overlay

  • Creating Custom Controls

  • Creating the Control Object

  • Creating the Container

  • Positioning the Container

  • Using the Control

  • Adding Tabs to Info Windows

  • Creating a Tabbed Info Window

  • Gathering Info Window Information and Changing Tabs

  • Creating a Custom Info Window

  • Creating the Overlay Object and Containers

  • Drawing a LittleInfoWindow

  • Implementing Your Own Map Type, Tiles, and Projection

  • GMapType: Gluing It Together

  • GProjection: Locating Where Things Are

  • GTileLayer: Viewing Images

  • The Blue Marble Map: Putting It All Together

  • Driving Directions

  • Simple Driving Directions

  • Multiple waypoints


YM4R

  • Introduction to YM4R

  • Using YM4R/GM to generate maps in Rails

  • Mapstraction (YM4R/Mapstraction)

  • Yahoo! Maps Building Block APIs

  • YM4R vs. the Google Maps API


Advanced Geocoding Topics

  • Where Does the Data Come From?

  • Sample Data from Government Sources

  • Sources of Raw GIS Data

  • Geocoding Based on Postal Codes

  • Using the TIGER/Line Data

  • Understanding the data sources

  • Parsing and Importing the Data

  • Building a Geocoding Service










Google - Maps API Developer - Exam Track
There is currently no exam associated to this training program.







Google - Maps API Developer - What's Included
With Firebrand, you benefit from top-quality education in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so you can focus solely on your studies and certification goals.
You’ll get a robust set of course materials that cater to each of our three key individual learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic-tactile) - critical for a successful learning experience.
And there's more. Along with daily lectures, exercises, and review sessions, you’ll also get:
Our Certification Programs include*

  • Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery

  • Comprehensive study materials and courseware - we adapt official curriculum to address the demands of accelerated learners

  • Self-testing software and/or mock exam papers
  • Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access

  • Exam vouchers

  • On site testing

  • Accommodation, all meals, drinks and snacks

  • Our Certification Guarantee - because we're sure you'll pass first time, if don’t pass your exams, come back to the course within a year and you only pay for accommodation and exam vouchers - everything else is free



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Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
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Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.








Google - Maps API Developer - Prerequisites
For the Google Maps API Developer course students should be familiar with basic HTML and CSS, and have some programming experience.

We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.
Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.





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