Apologies in advance for my stupidity.

I'm trying to add a map to a website with a My Maps KML overlay. A
user will search for a city from a world map (or at least one showing
U.S. and Europe, at this point) and it will zoom in and show the
little icon, if one exist for that area.

I started out using LocalSearch:
http://www.untourslocalexpert.com/testmap.asp

--Loved suppressInitialResultSelection
--Liked starting out with the whole world, then the search zooming in
appropriately on the city searched for.
--Hated the adsense ad that sometimes comes up - it was often for a
company that competes with the company who owns this new venture and
it overwrites a chunk of the map that we want people to see; these
maps will be getting pretty crowded.
--Don't like the position of the search bar; didn't like having it on
the map.

So I did the same thing using GSmapSearchControl.
http://www.untourslocalexpert.com/test6.asp

--I love the fact that there are no Adsense ads
--I love the position of the search bar.
--Hate that I couldn't get suppressInitialResultSelection to work.
--I hate the fact that if I set the zoom to the whole world, it stays
at that zoom when they search for a city.
--I dislike the green arrow and the city arrow after a search
(solvable by creating a new icon based on a single pixel
transparent .gif but I removed that code to keep this simple.)
--(Also, for some reaons, the KML file doesn't show up on the idle
map, only the active one, but that's another problem altogether.)

Is there a way to eliminate adsense ads and get the positioning of the
control that you get with GSmapSearchControl, while being able to
start with a world zoom and zoom in, and still use
suppressInitialResultSelection like you can with LocalSearch?

I hope that made sense. In the first example, the ads are the major
issue.

I have read and read and read and have a screaming headache. I'm
probably missing something obvious.

Would really appreciate some direction.

Thanks for any help.

Julie


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