Tagged articles - GoogleMaps

To make it easier for your customers to find your store location it is really important to show them where you are, but what can make even better impact is to show them where you are based on their current location and to guide them to you. GoogleMaps are a powerful tool for that, but you have to spend some time (more or less) to find code snippets and understand how to invoke their API, add the proper references, handle exceptions which might occur during the communication between your website and GoogleMaps API etc. ...read more

I've used GoogleMaps on several web projects and it seemed to me that I'm repeating a lot of code used in the previous projects which lead me to write a common Javascript library to help me easily reuse the code by only copying the JavaScript library to a project or referencing it from CDN. I could not think of a better way to build this library than to use jQuery and build a pligin for this. ...read more

In situations where distance between two geo coordinates needs to be found most of the people are using mathematical function to do this. However there is a major disadvantage in using this method...read more