[thelist] Google (or other) Maps

Renoir Boulanger renoirb at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 16:51:10 CDT 2012


Hello,

This is something similar I have seen.

Look at https://bixi.com

It is basically what I was talking about: A staticly generated file that the google map (in this case, could be open street map) reads and points to be plotted.

Yes. We need database. 

But you could dump in a static format and your plotter will use it instead of hitting database for each visitor.


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On 2012-10-29, at 9:29, Mark Groen <evolt at markgroen.com> wrote:

> On 2012-10-26 7:25 AM, Bob Meetin wrote:
>> Thx Jay,
>> 
>> Meaning that you were able to do something similar to what I'm describing with Google Maps?  I understand that you can manually set up a map using the service and their plot many locations function, http://maps.google.com/help/maps/getmaps/plot-multi.html. However, what I need to do is manage the locations automatically through a table on the hosting server which maintains city or country names, coordinates, etc. Each hotspot will include a link to a profile. So I would have to write to the maps file that is maintained on the local host.
>> 
>> I found this link https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial. What is YMMV?
>> 
>> Anyway, you are confirming that the X/Y coordinates are required.
> 
> Something similar we did with the roads on the island, started out with the Google doc you linked to above:
> http://bowenisle.info/roads/roadstat.php
> It uses polylines, but comes from the same place as the place markers.
> 
> cheers,
> 
>    Mark
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