CIS 8020 Assignment 2 AM Google Maps

A Graduate student has recently joined the Master’s in Computer Information Systems Program being offered at the Robinson College of Business. On his first day working as a Graduate Research Assistant for the department he is faced with a situation on where to have lunch. As he is new to the city he does not have too many friends and is unaware of any restaurants close to the college that he can try out.

Lucky for him, he came across this post, by Mavericks8020, on the use of APIs in locating restaurants in a given location. Google Maps API is an ideal solution to this kind of a problem. It generates a dynamic map which can be integrated on a web page allowing users to interact with it.

Prototype is as shown below:

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Its various views such as satellite, map, hybrid, etc. give the user an almost exact picture of the world out there. Google Maps APIs are easy to use, setup and customize. It saves the time and effort required in coding the same.


References:
http://maps.google.com/
http://docs.google.com/
http://home.olemiss.edu/~jcchurch/mapapi.html