Google Maps GeoCoding with Sidebar and inline searching
October 11th, 2011After a LOT of work, I’m pleased to write up about a new script I’ve just finished. Its based on the Google PHP code for doing something similar (but in PHP): http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html You can see a working example of my script here: http://www.mywebsitedesignersblog.com/examples/google_map_ajax/map.html Requirements A MySQL database Perl The following perl module (installed as standard [...]
Marker Clusters in Google Maps v3 API
October 5th, 2011After the success of this article: http://www.mywebsitedesignersblog.com/2011/09/google-maps-v3-making-a-map-with-multiple-markers-on/ I thought I would create an example of using Google Maps “Clustering” capabilities, for the maps where you have simply too many markers in one area. You can see an example here: http://www.mywebsitedesignersblog.com/examples/google_maps/google_maps_marker_cluster_example.html For this feature, we will be using an add on library called “Fluster2″. You can [...]
Google Maps v3.. Making a map with multiple markers on
September 19th, 2011I recently started converting over someones Google Map section of their site, to use the new(er) v3 API. Its relatively simple (in fact, quite a bit simpler than the old version). First of all – you no longer need an “API Key” (which you used to have to include in your pages, and caused fun [...]
