[thesite] evolt map

[Bruce Heerssen]

Elfur Logadottir wrote:

>From: "Joxn" <joxn at vernum.com>
>
>| > http://members.evolt.org/mantruc/map/map2.html
>|
>| Again, I really like the general look of the map.
>| I only heard rumours that you can connect Flash5 (4, too?) with a DB.
>| Does anyone know for sure?
>
>yes flash 5 can be connected to db ... we even have an article on the site
>about it (well it talks about working with CF but hey ... isn't that even
>better, then we can integrate it into the member profile files that are on
>the table ...)
>

 From a Flash standpoint, this wouldn't be too hard. The hard part is 
getting the data in usable format, like longitude and latitude 
coordinates. Does anyone know of a way to find the lat&lon of any 
location in the world given a valid postal address? A cgi, or better 
yet, an online service would be ideal.

Once that is known, it shouldn't be too hard to pass that info to flash.

-Bruce