Navigate to the Google Maps API, Articles & Tutorials, at:
http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=11364
Please complete the following Google Maps Tutorials:
1. Tutorial: Creating Your First Map - this takes you through all the steps for installing/setting up what you need to work with Google Maps
2. Using Debugging Tools with the Google Maps API
3. Go to the GMapEZ website at: http://n01se.net/gmapez/,
and beginning at the link “Get Started”, complete this entire Tutorial
4. Creating a Store Locator with PHP, MySQL & Google Maps
BUT BEFORE you can do this tutorial, you'll need MySQL and PHP.
This took around one and half hour to finish it. I think that I can get sense of goolge mapping using Google API.
Using various tools, I can zoom in and out, and set up a location using latitude and longitude, and mark arrow to point out a certain place.