Mike, I love your site and have been through a lot of your examples. Thanks for providing the information to us all.
I think I need to explain my desires more. I am writing a map to assist sales people map out their day and find out information about their customers. For instance if you use the standard google map as a template and perform a search for dentists you will see a list of dentists with associated flags and depending on the number of search results pins on the map. What I want to do is use this type of map with the search results and all but I want to add the following data: - If the dentist has never been visited, based on my data, the flag/ pin will be red. - If the dentist has been visited in the last 6 months, based on my data, the flag/pin will be blue. - If the dentist requested a visit, based on my data, the flag will be green. I would like to also like to have an info window when a flag/pin is clicked on that contains some of the standard information such as office hours or web site that is available on the standard google map but, I would like to augment that information with my data such as: - Office contact person and phone number. - Date of last office visit. - Services the dentist has used if any. Through your examples I can place my data on the map and populate the info window with my data but, I have not seen a way to do a google search and augment search results with my data or change the flag/pin colors based on my data or get the standard info window data when an info window is clicked. Boiled down: I want to create a map similar to the standard google map but the search results and info windows being a combination of the google search and my information. This is what I was thinking I would need to do but I have not found the API calls to make it possible. 1. If a user performs a search I would use an API call to perform the search with the search results returned directly to me. 2. I would use that data to create the search result list in the side column. 3. I would flag/pin the map with the correct color based on the search results and my custom data. 4. When a user clicks on a flag/pin I would issue an API call to get the information that a standard map would display but augment that data with my custom data as described above. My question is: Is this possible and if so what are the APIs I should be looking at. If it is not possible is there a way I can farm the search data so I don't have to enter the data all myself? Again Mike Thanks for all your examples I have found them very helpful getting me this far. On Apr 7, 10:56 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > You can't use the mnaps.google.com code, or its data, directly. You have > to build what you need using the API. You'll need to decide which of the > maps.google.com facilities you really need. Many of the facilities are > possible with the API, but they're not all easy. > > --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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
