[_] The old 'plot UK addresses on a Google Map' quandry
Dan Bramall
dan at iomi.net
Fri Dec 18 13:51:15 GMT 2009
Thanks George. I've tried using the GlocalSearch class as per the tomanthony.co.uk link you suggested, but got stuck when I needed to add a record id variable to the localSearch.setSearchCompleteCallback function, which I don't think is possible. I basically couldn't find a way to dynamically geocode addresses and plot them along with their relevant title, image etc (for the pop-up window) on the map. I've had a look at your code on greenaddict.eu but it appears that you're hard-coding the lat/lng coordinates in your company array as opposed to dynamically generating this from the maps API. In my case, I only have addresses not lat/lng in the data feed. I'll give GlocalSearch another shot, but I fear I'll be in the exact same position in two hours time. The V3 API lets you plot addresses on a map very very simply, but it limits each call to just a few records, and the user experience won't allow me to set a delay in the script to batch this up. It's frustrating that they can't open that up even on a commercial basis. Cheers anyhow, Dan --