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A project using Google Maps JavaScript API to design a map showing a few places I think are interesting in San Francisco.

This is a project for the fifth week of the Full Stack Program at Galvanize. The goal for the assignment was to spend three days using our creativity and JS skills to create an app using an external library or technology.

It's been a goal of mine for a while now to create an app detailing nature-related and other interesting spots in San Francisco. This web page, using Google Maps JavaScript API, is my first attempt.

I used and modified a lot of the code and instructions in the Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial. My understanding, from reading the Google Developers Site Policies, is that we are able to use nearly everything on the Google Developers site in our own creations, as long as we include the following attribution:

Portions of this page are reproduced from or are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

In the interest of completeness: since I'm also using a lot of their code, here is an additional attribution: I reproduced and modified the Google code from the Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial according to terms described below:

code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

The code and instructions I used came from many different pages in the Google Maps JavaScript API Tutorial, so hopefully, linking to the opening page of the tutorial will satisfy the requirement that I link back to the original source page. I am very grateful to Google for the tutorial, and of course also for the opportunity to make use of the Google Maps JavaScript API! It is a dream come true to have even this simple web app, showing a few locations in San Francisco that I think are fun to visit.

The images I used for my custom stair and tree markers came from pixabay.

• The stair marker image
• The tree marker image

A few disclaimers:

• There are an enormous number of comments in my code in this project, particularly in the JavaScript file. I would normally never have this many comments, but this was a school project, and I left the comments in so my fellow students could explore what I learned .
• This is still a work in progress. There is no back end to this project: no database, no web hosting except as a project page on GitHub. The code has not been refactored.