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#24155: I just purchases the book and am very unhappy that your example file are not full function in IE6 or Firefox 1.5--YumanBean

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20-Feb-06
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#24492: Google Maps API Version 2.0 has recently been released. There are several methods that have been added, removed, and/or changed. I'm hoping ...more...
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16-Apr-06
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#23820: In the text it says: "you can also download the code". The "download the code" is formatted as a link (it is coloured red), but no link is ava...more...
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05-Dec-05
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#24348: Clicking on the link to download code produces no response.--geoff

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21-Mar-06
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#23801: On the webpage http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/sdgmapi/index.html it says: "Google maps isn't just useful when you're looking for ...more...
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30-Nov-05
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#24837: The book states "map.centerAndZoom(), as the name implies, centers the map on a particular latitude/longitude point and zooms into the level...more...
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13-May-06
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#23796: A line break after "home of the" in the var coorsFieldHtml definition, on OSX using Firefox, throws a javascript unterminated string literal e...more...
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27-Nov-05
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#24051: I find the URLs set in the left margin to be all but illegible, even when I'm reading in full screen mode. More legible and/or larger type wou...more...
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05-Feb-06
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#24154: Your sample map at http://www.mapmap.org/googlemaps/debug-2.html does not prodece map info when the button is pushed--YumanBean

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19-Feb-06
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#24050: "With a little Regular Expression magic, you covert those elements" should read "With a little Regular Expression magic, you can convert those...more...
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05-Feb-06
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#23797: infowindowopen() has a typo in the discription: "diplayed".--Nick Gracilla

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28-Nov-05
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#23794: 404 error on this URL:

http://www.mapmap.org/googlemaps/debug-5.html--Nicholas Gracilla

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27-Nov-05
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#23911: You use 'city-ws-proxy.jsp'to pull XML information from various geocoders. Is there anychance you could provide this file in PHP format as wel...more...
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02-Jan-06
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#24049: "geographically enable web servers" should read "geographically enabled web servers"--Zach Thomas

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05-Feb-06