Is the Map Rails Kit worth the money? -

Would you like to launch your own Google Maps mashup? Need to get data easily on the map, but do not want to lose the bad documents through the heap of Google Maps JavaScript code?

The Map Rail Kit allows you to deploy a map mashup immediately, it concludes all Google Maps implementation details, making all customization easy to use config files, and map controls Rebuild bubbles and markers so your app can look unique.

Make your map pop up with markers to work with some simple ActiveRecord models, so it's easy to start surprisingly, create markers records with titles, bubble content, and places. If you specify only one address for your markers, then your markers will be automatically geocode for you. You can easily add thousands of markers to your map, and they will dynamically load on the map only when they are currently viewing because your users navigate the map.

All utilities in the kit include polish that your users will expect in commercial map mashups, their current map settings are always saved through the session, when they come back to the page later, where they are right Before they left them for new visitors, we support hooking up in an ip2location service to start our current situation. So they immediately see their current location on the map, and start a conversation with it.

This kit was written by Jacques Crocker.

This is a type of subjective, but I'm not nearly as challenging as Google Maps API Is getting it because Blobber makes it out. I do not think I pay half a great part of the API for the Maps API - especially when you can also buy the entire book on topic for $ 15 for the lack of Google Docs.