Andre Lewis on Ruby And Google Maps

Google Tech Talks
December 7, 2006

ABSTRACT

Andre will be covering topics such as the following:
- ImageMagick and geographic data: creating custom Google Map overlays with RMagick
- Google Maps custom controls: creating a better (or at least different) zoom control
- Demystifying the geocoder: you, too, can create a geocoder from scratch

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