Hi Sebastien-
There is now a demo of how to search markers loaded from XML for the closest
markers to an address:
http://gmaps-samples-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/MarkerXmlSearcher/MarkerXmlSearcher.html

- pamela

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:46 AM, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien-
> It uses the Google AJAX Search API via HTTPService, yes, and then uses the
> open-source JSON parser to turn the JSON result into AS3 objects and display
> them on the map. If the search isn't working for you, check your NET
> requests to see if the request is being sent off correctly, and what it
> returns.
>
> If you have a KML file on a public domain that Google has indexed, you can
> use the Local Search on that (using the site: restrict operator. See:
>
> http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/05/geo-search-20-data-in-data-out.html
>
> Otherwise, you can just do a search in ActionScript of your markers. You
> can do for loop testing GLatLng.distanceFrom on all of the coordinates, and
> just show the closest ones.
>
> - pamela
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Sebastien <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up my own "Local Search", based on this example:
>>
>> http://gmaps-samples-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/LocalSearcher/LocalSearcher.html
>>
>> I haven't been very good at understanding how this works. Does it use
>> the Google AJAX search API?
>> I downloaded the zip pack (with the JSON files) on my computer, tried
>> to compile the map with Flex Builder, but the "Search this site"
>> option doesn't work anymore.
>>
>> My questions:
>> - Where does this Local Search map get its information? I haven't seen
>> any reference to a database or kml file in the code.
>> - Can I make this search tool work on my own XML file (I have a list
>> of markers)?
>> - If this doesn't work on an XML file, how can i perform a search on
>> an XML file?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Sebastien
>> >>
>>
>

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