How to make a maps website?

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Published on 2010-04-03T11:47:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 11:53 UTC
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I want to build a website that provides some maps that have information about a city (like Google Maps). How can I do that? Is it good to use an app to do that? Can you give me a few examples?

Or it it best to do that with Web programming? Is there any tutorial that can help me out?

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