http://magmainteractive.net/tutorials/post/Virtual-Earth-Meets-SQL-Server-2008-and-ASPNET-AJAX.aspx (just apply Google Maps API code at the end and is assuming that your data is in the GEOMETRY data type)
If you search on VE and asp.NET SQL Server and there is lots. (maybe the because products of Microsoft??) Mapperz http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ On Jan 29, 10:46 am, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I was in exactly the same position a few months ago. My background is > php, mysql so that part was not difficult. I have spent a long time > looking at the spatial extensions in mysql, they are not easy to > learn, the documentation is accurate but there are few examples to > look at. For what you are doing you can put just the lat/lng into a > table and pull them out, have a look at the spatial extensions too. It > was the javascript that took me time to learn, my php is pretty good, > but I have not really done a lot of OO stuff, so it took time to > appreciate some of the finer points. The examples that have already > been quoted were really useful to me, but then I do learn best by > picking code apart :-) A couple of good books on ajax and javascript > have been really useful to me. > > On Jan 29, 1:50 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 4:48 pm, Nole95 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I did read through that, but I am not sure if any of those solutions > > > will work for me. The Reimers third party control might be as close > > > as it gets, but I am not sure a third party control is the way we > > > might want to go. > > > > Are there any options for doing this outside of a third party control, > > > or is it pretty much necessary if you want to use AJAX and/or ASP.Net? > > > If you look at the tutorials/examples for using a database and have > > the skills and understanding to apply them to your database/toolset > > the principles will apply. I don't use ASP.Net so I don't know if > > there are any special challenges with using it. > > > -- Larry > > > > On Jan 28, 3:54 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Jan 28, 11:37 am, Nole95 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > First time posting here, and hopefully I am in the correct place. > > > > > > I have been tasked with learning the Google Maps API in order to work > > > > > on a project. I have done a lot of reading over the past week, and am > > > > > trying to make sense of it all. The basics I have grasped, but I need > > > > > some more in depth direction. > > > > > > Project consists of the following: > > > > > > Need a mapping application to track boats via data sent into the > > > > > database. > > > > > > Only thing my boss has told me is to look into AJAX and ASP.Net to > > > > > create the website. > > > > > > All data is in a MS SQL Server 2008 database. The table I need has a > > > > > Boat_ID, datetime the reading was taken as well as a group of lat/long > > > > > coordinates for each boat. > > > > > > The first thing I am trying to figure out is how to pull the lat/long > > > > > data from the database and get it displayed on the map. > > > > > > Eventually I will need to pull the whole set of data for a boat to > > > > > generate a route using Polylines, but one step at a time. > > > > > > Is there a good tutorial out there that might help with this or point > > > > > me in the right direction? > > > > > Have you looked through > > > > these?http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/using-databases-wi...text > > > > - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
