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Google Maps API v3

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1. To create an empty Google Map in your webpage:
a. Load the Google Map API from http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js
b. Create a div element to place the map
c. Create the Map Options literal to define a Map Type and a center point with Longitude and Latitude
d. Create an instance of your actual map
e. Load the map on your page
http://learnfromlocals.com/examples/google-maps-example1.html

2. To create a Google Map with Markers and Info Windows
a. Follow the Steps described under 1.
b. To add points to your map, you need to add so-called overlays with markers to your map.
http://learnfromlocals.com/examples/google-maps-example2.html

var map;
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();

function initialize() {
  var latlon0 = new google.maps.LatLng(37.918201, 25.44342);
  var options = {
    zoom: 7,
    center: latlon0,
    mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
  };
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map_canvas'), options);
  
  addMarker(37.030994, 25.499511, 'Cave of Zeus, Naxos, Greece');
  addMarker(37.609421, 26.239854, 'Birthplace of Dionysis, Mount Pramnos, Ikaria, Greece');
  addMarker(38.496594, 26.130066, 'Homer's Rock, Vrandados, Chios, Greece');
}

function addMarker(lat, lon, content){
  var latlon = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lon);
  var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
	  position:latlon,
	  map: map,
	  title:content
  })
  google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function(){
	  infowindow.close();
	  infowindow.setContent(content);
	  infowindow.open(map, marker);
  });
}

3. Use a simplified JavaScript library to create a Google Map with markers and InfoWindows:
a. Add a script tag to load caprioit-googlemaps-lib.js,
b. Create a map,
c. Add the markers.
http://learnfromlocals.com/examples/google-maps-example4.html

  var divid = 'map_canvas';
  var zoomlevel = 7;
  var centerlat = 37.918201;
  var centerlon = 25.44342;
  var maptypeid = google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP;
	  
  var map = new MyGoogleMap(divid, zoomlevel, centerlat, centerlon, maptypeid);
	  
  map.addMarker('Cave of Zeus, Naxos, Greece', 37.030994, 25.499511);
  map.addMarker('Birthplace of Dionysis, Mount Pramnos, Ikaria, Greece', 37.609421, 26.239854);
  map.addMarker('Homer's Rock, Vrandados, Chios, Greece', 38.496594, 26.130066);

The Diaries of Arnon Grunberg (11)

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“Don’t you grow tired by your own disquiet?”
“Sometimes,” only to add at the last moment,”perhaps.”
Such a settled question, Arnon thought. Only an old man, whose years have worn down his body, sees struggling and making efforts as a burden. To the vigor of a youth, being challenged feels like an elevation of the mind, to which he looks eagerly forward.

“But then you also run from deadline to deadline.”
The interviewer’s questions started to irritate Arnon, realizing that this man’s decay was printing itself on his mind and thus polluted his lust for life. The interviewer seemed to suggest that it was all too much, that this restless inspiration needed a break, take some time off, lay in bed and do nothing for a whole day but fetish itself in lazy dinners.

“Yes, but everything that has a pattern, is easy, and I don’t forget.”

While Arnon heard his own voice say the last lines, hearing himself, he realized already did the gray haired, saggy face with the coarse scraping voice affect him. He reflected on the absurdity of the answer, embarrassed by the apparent habit of himself that he displayed in public. This pattern of routines was what tired him, not the exerting demands.