I have an application where users can submit questions by subject, and they enter manually their location ( I know it could be a drop-down of something, but it is the way it is currently designed). What I want to do is map those locations ( for example, 'san diego', 'Boston,Ma', 'Japan') on Google Maps and Flex.
What my app should do is to offer the admin to click in different subjects and then get the list of questions submitted for that subject and then map the submitter location. What I did was to use the geocoding and add markers (InfoWindow) to the map. But I have a couple of questions: 1. First I saw that it is not recommended to do a loop for geocoding. But since locations may vary by subject, it looks like my only option is to geocode locations everytime the admin selects a different object. It's actually performing fine, I guess the geocode cache is helping. My question is, would this use case justify to geocode in a loop? or is there any other solution that people recommend? 2. I want to provide a customized InfoWindow and it looks like I can use the customizedContent property. No problem there, but I want to use some of the data that came with the user's location. For example, my record has user's id, location and an URL that shows a list of questions submitted by the user. However, since I am using geocoding and listening for the geocode sucess event, I cannot figure it out how to get the matching data for a specific record. For example: I have "Ana, Boston,MA, http://someULR"; I have access to event.response.placemarks in the ongecodesucess event which can give me the "address" - Boston, but not "Ana" or the URL. I want to use those values to add them to my customized InfoWindow by user How are people doing this with geocoding? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
