Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth

Google maps has lots of tool and features, some added after this book. But this is still a great book on what kinds of things you can do using Google Maps and Google Earth.

good book - it was a touch too technical for me. But I learned a good amount - if you have more computer experience - its a great read

Although I really enjoy this book, it's too bad that it's already out of date (as mentioned in other reviews). As someone with very little previous experience with JavaScript, I found this book to be really helpful it describing how to make stuff happen. I personally have found the Google Maps API Documentation to be far too terse and difficult to figure out; kinda like reading a dictionary to learn how to write. This book takes the simplistic Google examples and builds on to them to give you a better idea of how you might actually build an application. True, "Hacking Google Maps" might not be the best title for the book ("Introduction to Google Maps" might be more appropriate) but it was a very well written and useful book for getting my own Google Maps mash-up going.