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 >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
