On Mar 13, 3:15 pm, Derek Tonn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Rossko and Larry! > > Maybe I didn't explain my questions well enough (as I was already > worried about putting people to sleep with the length of my post as > it was). > > For driving directions, the issue is this: I am using a .js file > for data (rather than XML) and for over half the locations I am > eventually going to be pointing to, they do not have a formal > street address. So what I need is a directions link that will > provide driving directions to a marker's Lat/Long coordinates from > a town name or street address (more than likely). I know on that > sample I linked to, all of the markers I have shown so far have a > physical street address. However, other than the issue of .js vs. > XML (and me being a relative newbie with the Google Maps API in > trying to decipher what to do), I won't have street addresses for a > lot of the markers.
1. .js vs XML doesn't matter, the concepts are the same (there have been a lot of discussions on this group over JSON vs. XML) 2. street address vs. lat/lng doesn't matter, both work with the directions service. > > For the alpha-sort list of markers next to the map, it's a somewhat > similar issue. Rather than XML, I am introducing all of that data > via .js file. So I'm not sure if XML would be a better way to > go...since most of the links I've looked through are referring to > XML data. Doesn't matter here either, most of those posts put the sidebar info in an array, and sort that before creating the sidebar. > > I actually did do searches on both of these topics before posting > my thread. I try and always do that first, so as not to waste > people's time. I see how people have somewhat similar questions > about identical topics. I just am not good enough to yet figure > out how to translate that into the specific context of > markerclusterer and my own set of code. Sometimes it is hard to know what to search for. -- Larry > > Another long post (sorry)! However, hopefully that sheds a little > more light on the issues. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" 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.
