In this chapter, we speculated about what might be coming up in the Google API. Along with the new services, we can expect better tools. As with any web application, Google will be c- tinually improving on the existing components of the Maps API. Tools like the geocoder will eventually expand to cover more countries and improve accuracy as more detailed infor- tion becomes available. Satellite imagery will increase in detail and will be updated continually with more and more recent images. Now we are ready to move on to some more advanced mapping techniques. In the next part of the book,...

About the Technical Reviewer ? Rob Drimmie is a software developer with a bias toward web-based applications. The best things about him are his wife and children. He likes pho and hamburgers but has never eaten both at the same sitting. xiv ? INTRODUCTION Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to thank my beloved fiancee, Petronella Frisk, for putting up with me spending evenings and weekends writing this book. Thank you for your patience and support I couldn't have done it without you Many thanks to Tom Skinner for helping me with the initial reviews of the chapters and with testing...