My Maps doesn't have the concept of categories. So you've got several approaches. None of which are simple:
1. You could reproduce parts of the interactive functionality of My Maps within your own page and capture the extra category information before sending the data to your database. That's seriously difficult for a newbie. If you want to go that route, consider using the new Geometry Controls from Chris Marx <http://gmaps-utility-library-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geometrycontro ls/> 2. You could use My Maps to generate the markers, and somehow store the category information inside the My Maps data. E.g. you could set the titles of all the "school" category markers to be like "school:Sunnydale High" [Hint: be careful to be consistent with things like spaces and capitalisation.] Right-click the [View in Google Earth] link and choose "Copy Link Location" (or whatever the equivalent is in the browser you are using). Paste that into your browser window, but change the bit that says "&output=nl" to say "&output=kml". That will give you a static KML file of the info from THAT PAGE of your My Map. You could then process that KML file offline to produce a suitable XML file, which you could then use with the examples that you already know about. [Hint: KML coordinates are in the opposite order to what you expect: lng,lat rather than lat,lng.] 3. You could use My Maps to capture the data, as above. Then use the Lance Dyas GeoXml to process the KML, writing your own {createmarker} function to capture the category information and remove it from the Title string. 4. You could use My Maps to capture the data, as above, but not necessarily change the "nl" into "kml". Then use BOTH the tricks listed on this page: http://econym.org.uk/gmap/interceptor.htm Use the first trick to obtain the category information. Use the second trick to remove the category information from the infowindow display. If you use the &output=nl version, then you get dynamic KML. So your page will keep up to date with changes to the corresponding My Map page. If you use the &output=kml version, then you get a snapshot of the My Map page at that instant. With method 4, there's no way to handle more than one My Maps page at once. -- http://econym.org.uk/gmap The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
