Scott Davis on GIS beyond Google Maps
When Scott Davis isn't editing AboutGroovy.com you'll find him on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, where he is known as both
the Groovy guy and the Google Maps guy. 
Here he talks with Andrew Glover about what Google Maps has done to make geomatics, or geographic information systems, more
accessible to your average Web developer. He also discusses in-depth the options available for Java developers who require
a more sophisticated, less closed-stack GIS solution than Google Maps provides. This is an informal primer from a leading
authority on using geospatial data, Web services, and open source APIs in Java Web development.
- See GIS for Web developers (Scott Davis, Pragmatic Programmers, October 2007) for more about adding mapping and other geographic services to your Web applications.
- Sumit Bando and Darius Kasad's "A Google Maps mash-up" (JavaWorld, January 2006) is a crash-course in integrating external data with the Google Maps API.
- Groovy in Action (Dierk Koenig, with Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, and Jon Skeet; Manning Publications, January 2007) is a must-have book for many Java developers. This JavaWorld excerpt gives you a glimpse of what it's all about.
- Also be sure to check out Scott's series introduction to Grails, starting with "Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application" (IBM developerWorks, January 2008).
- Stay tuned for more inside views from JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider.
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