On Jun 3, 6:00 am, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a volunteer helping out at Aravind Eye Hospital in India. The > hospital would like to display various data about the hospitals > (location, facilities, etc.) using Google Maps or Google Earth, but > have the data come from an SQL database. Actually, they want a lot > more than that, but this is a starting point. > > For example, perhaps someone might want to view all the Aravind > hospitals in South India that have a "retina clinic". Presumably this > person could go to an Aravind web page, select the appropriate > criteria, and the server could then display a map of South India with > the names and locations for the eye care facilities that provide > "retina" service.
That sounds like a store locator. The tutorial may help: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/articles.html Google Maps and Google Earth are different products. If all you want is a map, use Maps. If you want all the whizzbang features of Earth, and to force your patients to download the Earth client on a machine which can run it, use that. (You can probably guess which one I'd advise!) Google products don't "integrate with the database". You need to write code which forms an interface layer between the browser and the database. It's explained in the store locator tutorial. That's written in terms of PHP and MySQL, because those are free, but the principles will hold for Windows software like ASP/VB and SQL Server. You don't actually say what your environment is. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
