On Jun 17, 5:29 pm, Intmaso <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Why would you want to write that? Because the time it took you to
> write how to do it is more than it would take you to write the code.
> And the first one is actually useless waste of everyone's time.

If you're basing this question on your earlier thread at
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/browse_thread/thread/26a14e9cc4a162d0
(which I've just got back to, having been out this evening) then this
is a useful place to respond. All I can say is that to write the code
and test it -- particularly for the later examples I gave there --
would take considerably longer than to describe it. Speaking for
myself I write code either because I find a problem interesting enough
to do that or because I'm paid for it. I'll help others debug their
own code and point them in the right direction for free, because I
enjoy helping others get to know the API and what it can do -- and so
that at some point they will be able to pass on their knowledge too.

But I don't think this Group should be a Javascript tutorial. It's
available to help those who have tried and found difficulty with the
Maps API. A certain level of prior knowledge is needed. To use a very
imperfect analogy, it's like telling a hausfrau that a trifle is made
of three layers: sponge-cake pieces in jelly*, with custard and topped
with cream, without having to tell her how to make the sponge, the
jelly or the custard because she knows how to do that.

I doubt that anyone here would call themselves an expert, even Mike
who actually is; and I agree with the other responses. There's a
Chinese proverb in my profile that I find is a useful tenet.

--
* That's what the Americans call jello, not what we call jam.

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