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Workshop

The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice.

Quiz

1.

What's the difference between the Satellite and Hybrid views in Google Maps?
2.

What must you obtain from Google before publishing your own custom Google Maps applications?
3.

What on Earth is a geocoordinate?

Quiz Answers

1.

The Satellite view in Google Maps shows a satellite image of the current map area, whereas the Hybrid view shows the satellite image along with overlaid streets and street names.
2.

In order to view your own custom Google Maps applications, you must obtain an API key from Google and place it in the web page that creates the map. This web page must then be published to the exact URL location that you specified when obtaining the API key.
3.

A geocoordinate is a fancy way of referring to the latitude and longitude of a location. Although there is a temptation to say that geocoordinates only apply to planet Earth, Google Moon is an example of how geocoordinates could be applied to locations on any celestial body.

Exercises

1.

Add some additional projects to the condos.xml data document. Make sure you provide an accurate latitude and longitude for the projects so that they appear in the proper locations on the map.
2.

Try your hand at creating different custom icon images for the markers in the condominium map example. Copy these images over the existing images in the example to see how they look on the map.