Introduction

The projects in this chapter make use of the Google Maps API as a way to play video, display images, or play audio and display an image, all based on geographic locations. You can use these projects as models to build a study of a geographic area, report on a business or vacation trip, or create a geography quiz. I will describe three distinct applications. For all three applications, I have acquired media, such as video files, audio files, and image files, and I have defined in code an association between the files and specific geographic locations. To give you an idea of what I mean, for my projects, associations between a target location (which is given in latitude and longitude coordinates in the code) and media are shown in ...

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