Having fun with Google Maps
So today I have been playing with the Google Map APIs. It is really cool and a lot of fun. I have only tested this with IE6. I need to get FireFox installed and make sure it works with that too.
Can anyone guess where this is?
Can anyone guess where this is?
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Charleston South Carolina...
And if I'm right it's because Google is nice enough to stick the "Zoom Out" button on the map so I can zoom out as far as I need to find out ;)
Michael, nice to see another employee blogging, just keep it up. People are reading. Alot of us "migrated" from AOL Journals to blogger though I use Wordpress.
Correct! I actually added the controls (zoom in/out) on the map so that people could play. I debated not having them to make guessing a little harder. ;-)
It is really cool. To add the control is 1 line of JavaScript:
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
Google has made it really easy.
Hey Michael, great blog and good post ... it would be instructive to try to do the same with Mapquest Open API and see which one is easier. I actually started a mini-test of this sort and will post a comparison on my blog when I'm done (and if I'm done). Mapquest API is pretty cool too and we are one-up vis-a-vis Google by having built-in support for geocoding. For example, I can just use the MQLocationCollection.loadRemote() or loadFromStr() from JScript which take location data in XML form containing street level or whatever data. With Google maps api as it is today you'd have to use a 3rd party service for geocoding...
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