Here's what I would (have) do in broad terms: * Have the users store the lat/long in a database. This could be done via a Google Map and read the lat/long from the marker or via a form where they could enter the lat/long directly - whatever suits your needs.
* Use a server side programming language such as PHP to create a dynamically generated XML file based on these lat/long values. You could use a $_GET variable to filter the data in the XML to the city that you were interested in. * Import the XML document to display the markers on a map. See one of Mike's many good tutorials on how to do this. What you need to be able to do: Actually have an good understanding of backend databases and server side scripting to generate both the input forms and the xml. Though I see that you have used an off the shelf solution for your job board so I don't know what level of skills you have. Cheers Brett On Aug 23, 6:00 am, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > @Rossko > Thanks for the links > > But I only see solutions for importing a lot of pre defined locations. > Not to make it driven by the input of the users/database (which I > want). I would like to link it with my current job table with the > cities defined by the job posters. With the effect to search in the > site and see an overview of the Jobs in maps. Unfortuanenelly to > achieve the same effect likehttp://www.housingmaps.com/then I get > directly at a dead end how to make it work. > > Can anyone tell me where I can find the post/tutorial/discussion which > tells a bit more how to achieve this > > Thanks for the effort > > Chris > On 21 aug, 00:36, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > and this sort of interaction with the database is what I want but can > > > I achieve this effect with the Google Maps API? Can this API > > > communicate and generate the locations that are placed by job posters > > > and are in my database? If so what are the steps in a nutshell? > > > Yes. You can get some ideas > > herehttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/articles.html > > There are a lot of 'real estate' websites out there that do something > > similar too.http://www.housingmaps.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
