On Nov 19, 5:30 am, Beto1972 <[email protected]> wrote: > I need some help. > I'm placing in my website a Google Maps API. I already have my code > and placed onde of your exemples in my web page. But the exemple you > give has a latitude and longitude in it and always goes to the same > place. > What I want is the map to show the city of the person who is logged in > to my site. If I had the coordenats, Long and Lat, it would be easy to > change, but I only have the city name and country. > How can I informe the API the name of the city and country, so that > the maps centers on that especific city.
Converting an address to a latitude and longitude is called geocoding: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding > Another thing I want to do in my site is to have a world map with > markers in all the cities that I have people registered. Geocode the city when the person registers, and put a marker there when the map opens. -- Larry > If anyone can help, I would apreciate it. > Sorry if I made any mistakes in my english. > Best wishes, > Humberto Ferreira -- 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=.
