On May 12, 4:17 am, [email protected] wrote: > If you know Perl then you already know that there is always more than > one way to do anything...
Yeah... that's why I need some direction! I'm just staring at this vast documentation and I'm not sure what the best approach is. And the more I look at it, the more disorganized my thoughts are becoming. (This will quickly become apparent.) > Posting a link to your current attempt will be more likely to get you > responses than broad descriptions of your problem. I'm sorry! I was trying to be broad because that was the sort of advice I thought I needed, but I'll be a bit more specific if you think it will be helpful. I haven't actually attempted the main idea yet (small map to individual venue for each event page) but here is an example event page: http://www.stillepost.ca/calendar/montreal/view_entry.php?id=2012 My aim is to include a small map to the right of the event information, with a point for that event's venue. I guess my problem is figuring out how to plot the venue's point based on the text string... or failing that, how best to geocode that text string. Here are maps of all the venues that I made using GGeoXml: RSS: http://stillepost.ca/calendar/maprsstest.html KML: http://stillepost.ca/calendar/mapkmltest.html I have not as yet been able to get a functional sidebar listing all the venues. I've been looking at others' implementations, but it seems using GGeoXml complicates a few things that are otherwise done easily. (Is this true?) Other considerations: - I like pulling the RSS feed or KML file of venues from MyMaps because it provides an easy interface to update the list when a new venue needs to be added. This isn't necessary, though, if there's a better way to do what I'm trying to do that requires manual editing of those files. - Should I be using GGeoXml at all? I suppose I could create a database with each venue name and a corresponding coordinate, but that seems to just duplicate the work that GGeoXml is meant to do. I'm really sorry this is getting even more convoluted. Thanks again for reading and replying, and even just a link to a relevant example in the wild of what I'm trying to accomplish would be a great help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
