rossko - thanks very much. this is a point in the right direction. I'll delve into the ajax search tool and see if I can't get that working first. again, it's a quick and dirty store locator. just something so uses can be reminded where a particular chain store is located around them. tracking stock levels is beyond our scope for now, although I had come across ms. fox's excellent store locator example. just a bit too involved for this cut.
cheers, lyndonr On Jul 19, 8:31 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess my first question is how can I feed the maps a search query > > like find "Walgreens" > > You can't. Maps is maps ; the closest it comes to 'search' is the > geocoder, which will find addresses. It won't find business names. > > Google do provide a Local Search tool that you can integrate with maps > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/local.html > and this will find some businesses if it knows about them. It won't > be able to distinguish which ones stock your product though. It has > limitations on the number of results returned (which needn't be a > problem for "find the nearest" type of use). It doesn't provide > multiple searches e.g. Walgreens or Sally or Bloggs, you'd need to > search for each consecutively and blend the results. All do-able but > more complex and slower. > > If there's any way you can maintain your own stockist list there are > well known examples using your own > data.http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch_v3.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
