Abstract:

The project is based on the increasing demand and popularity of Google maps. The project is an example of Google Maps usage. The project uses networking to establish a network which would have a centrally placed server which would have the entire maps' data stored on it. The server is attached to the clients and uses LAN connection to share information that it has.
The server would contain the land (property) details of a real estate company and the clients would extract this information of the required place from the server. The server would contain information as the maps of the property which are available for the sale. This would relieve the clients or the interested party from the overhead of visiting the site. This is just an application of Google maps and similar methods may be used for other such applications the project displays the idea on a small scale using LAN and can be enhanced using WAN.
Scope :
Interactive maps are becoming more and more widespread in modern web applications. Potential uses abound: real estate and tourism are two obvious domains where interactive maps can provide real added value, but there are dozens of others as well. Many of today's web applications make good use of integrated mapping software.
Two relatively recent technologies, Google Maps and Ajax, can make life considerably easier in this area. We can integrate a feature-rich map into our application in record time, by using the Google Maps API. The Google Maps API is an easy-to-use JavaScript API that enables us to embed interactive maps directly in our application's web pages. And it is easy to extend it to integrate real-time server requests using Ajax. Getting started with the Google Maps API is easy.
Ajax is the technology behind Google Maps. It is also the technology we will use to extend and integrate our Google Map into a dynamic web application. Ajax stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML." Behind all the hype, Ajax is basically a technology that enables JavaScript code to send a request to a server, retrieve some data in response (generally in XML format, hence the X in Ajax), process this data, and update the web page accordingly.
We would be using JavaScript for the coding purpose. The API once extracted also enables us to add many features to our Google maps. So, this can be achieved by using the JavaScript.
There are essentially two types of network architectures client-server and peer-to-peer. In the client-server scheme, a central server handles all security and file transactions; in peer-to-peer networks, each machine shares its own resources and handles its own security. We would be setting up a LAN between the machines. The demo includes 3 machines, one of them acting as server and the other 2 as clients.