On Mar 22, 2:16 pm, michelle dupray <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a form on our web site that is asking for addresses. We'd like to
> use a google map to show this information. We know we have to geocode the
> addresses to get the points to show up on a map. I'm planning on using an
> xml file as my datasource.

This is the kind of thing a database is good at.  Do you have access
to a database?

Another option (depending on your skill level), would be to append the
information to a csv file (appending to an xml file will make it
invalid, but you could write code to do that, and there are server
side libraries that let you do that).

> How can I do this making the process as dynamic
> as possible? I don't want to keep uploading the information every day....

Have you seen these articles?
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/articles.html

This one looks interesting:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlinfo.html
>From Info Windows to a Database: Saving User-Added Form Data
Shows how to prompt users to fill out information in an infowindow,
and then save that information back into a database.

  -- Larry

>
> Thanks, Michelle

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