Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Google Maps are everywhere!

I'm playing with google maps a bit right now, and am mainly using it to map out small groups, events, and things like that for my church. Apparently, all you have to do is request a "key" that allows you to access google maps (only for non-commercial use though) then use javascript to call the map, and set up items on the map.

My testing site so far is at http://maps.woventhorns.com and doesn't really have a whole lot on it, but I'll be playing with different features throughout the week when I get the chance to play around.

I'm actually pulling the info from a MySQL database that then spits out the javascript required to create the markers on the map. I also have another script that accesses the GeoCoder site to convert addresses to latitude and longitude (which are required for adding markers to google maps).

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