On Apr 7, 3:04 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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> On Apr 7, 6:55 am, Ben Pinkerton <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > So I have a database containing several thousand coordinates (lat/long
> > + postcode). My question is this - how does one go about rendering
> > these with the map api. It strikes me that you can't push all of them
> > to the map at once, so how do people achieve this?
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> > My initial thoughts were to get the lat/long boundaries of the map on
> > page load/change and then return database items that fall within those
> > boundaries via ajax. So if you zoom out/pan, then it will return the
> > new data.
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> > I've looked about for info on this subject but haven't been able to
> > find anything - and I figured that what I'm trying to do is not an
> > uncommon thing in the GM api world.
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> > Any help/advice is appreciated!
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> You are looking for AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And Xml):
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> Part 11 The AJAX Philosophyhttp://econym.org.uk/gmap/basic11.htm
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So it sounds like my initial idea is along the correct lines.
Thats great, thanks Larry.
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