And now for some bazillion-dollar arm–twisting in behalf of a forthcoming listing:
I wanted this from my sullen teenager a year ago, but he’s been busy trying to portray the subtle distinctions between indifference, ennui and anomie — it ain’t easy! In any case, let me feed this from a DB file and I’m done with Zee Maps, too.
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Todd Carpenter says:
That’s very cool. But when I just tried adding it to this recent post the highlighted route is missing. You can see it once you click on the “view larger map” link. I’m already brainstorming on how to use it. I’ve played wih the Google Maps Plugin, but creating all of those API keys was a hassle.
August 21, 2007 — 11:57 am
Kevin Boer says:
Zeemaps only remaining competitive advantage over Google Maps is that you can upload a CSV file to it. Hint to Google: Put a “Map This Spreadsheet” button in Google Docs spreadsheet. You know, similar to how Jotspot worked, until it got swallowed by…Google.
August 21, 2007 — 12:42 pm
J. Ferris says:
Greg, the new iLife ’08 suite features iWeb ’08 and embeddable Google Maps without the hassle. Very easy to use. Here is an example on my listing sample site:Map Example
August 21, 2007 — 12:56 pm
BR says:
Kevin that is pure genius- why haven’t they!?
Benn
August 21, 2007 — 3:22 pm
Loren Nason says:
Gregg,
Will this work?
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/creating-dynamic-client-side-maps.html
August 21, 2007 — 9:27 pm
Kris Berg says:
Two questions.
1. How do you/can you resize the info bubble?
2. I think this one is more of a statement. I can’t seem to get links to open in a new window. Google keeps zapping my target=blank commands.
If I can get those two little glitches worked out, I’m sold.
August 22, 2007 — 9:02 am
Chuchundra says:
It shouldn’t be too hard to create a little mashup that would generate the HTML from a spreadsheet. If I wasn’t knee-deep in a late late project, I might give it a go.
By the way, don’t forget to register your business with Google Local. That way, your biz will show up when someone does a local search in Google Maps.
http://www.google.com/local/add/
August 22, 2007 — 9:21 am
Chuchundra says:
Just a note, I did some poking around and you can map all the points in a spreadsheet, but there are some hoops to jump through that are non-trivial for those without geek skillz.
The steps would go something like this:
1) Enter in all the addresses into a spreadsheet
2) Geocode the addresses, that is, convert the addresses into Latitude/Longitude coordinates
3) Convert the geocoded spreadsheet to KML, the markup language for Google Earth and Google Maps
4) Upload the KML onto a web server
5) Type the URL of the KML file into the Google Maps search box
6) Get the embed code for the resulting map from the “Link to this page” link.
7) Paste the code into your web page. Hey presto, we’re mappin’!
There are tools available to do each of the individual steps. The key would be to make it all seamless, upload the spreadsheet file and get the embed code in one go.
August 23, 2007 — 6:32 am