Integrating HDRI into Google Maps with Ajax

Google Maps is a free Web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that offers Web map service. Ajax is a new technology based on asynchronous communication between a client Web browser and a back-end server, allowing Web applications to request and receive data without ever reloading the page. Google Maps is the popular application that uses Ajax technology. With Ajax, this paper develops an extension of Google Maps which integrates high dynamic range images into Google Maps. People can take advantage of high dynamic range images annotation features to provide more inform regarding particular points of the area.