OK, After some searching, I found that comcast doesn't allow PHP scripting on their websites. So I had to find a new one. When I did the heat map worked fine......
http://ricksil.x10.mx/maps/map-simple22.html The images you see are placed over airports, indicating a strength for that particular airport. I want to be able to read the datapoint from a file, and possibly lookup the GPS coordinates from a given ICAO name. Thanks for your help! Rick S. On Apr 1, 2:35 pm, dadof2innh <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks, great tips. Found the obvious problem with changing to "map" > instead of "this" > The sample script ran, except the heatmap api needed a proxy. I used > the asp version and put it in the code. > Here: > > http://home.comcast.net/~rickandjudith/maps/map-simple19.html > > It now requests the heatmap, which I see in the console, but the > heatmap does not return. > > I am going to try to host this on another free webserver, if I can > find one! Thanks > > Rick > > On Mar 30, 5:31 pm, Michael Geary <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You do get the error on your public page as well. Maybe Firebug is not > > enabled for that page? > > > Regardless, here's what to do next. > > > Turn on Firebug's "break on error" option. This is a little orange "pause" > > button - with the two vertical bars - near the top left corner of the > > Firebug panel. > > > Now reload your page and it will stop at the line with the map.getBounds(). > > Rest the mouse over "map" in that code to see info about that variable. Is > > it a Map object? Nope, it's a Window object. Oops. > > > 90% of the time, this particular error (a variable contains a reference to > > Window instead of what you expected) is caused when someone uses "this" > > incorrectly. In a function that was not called as a method but with an > > ordinary function call, "this" is the window object. > > > So let's check that. Look over on the right of the Firebug panel and click > > on Stack to see the call stack. Now click on the second item in the stack - > > the place where your current function was called - and you can see the call. > > > That should get you started on what to do from there... > > > -Mike > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, dadof2innh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't know if this is the place to ask the question, but I thought I > > > would try. > > > > I work as a data analyst, so I don't program for a living. I am > > > definitely a newbie with google map apis. > > > A co-worker asked me to try out the google maps to present some > > > geodata. He wanted a Heatmap overlay on top of google maps, to display > > > size dependent circles on top of airports around the USA. > > > > To start, I went to the heatmap api website and followed their > > > tutorial get a simple heatmap to overlay on a google maps. > > > > here is the tutorial:http://www.heatmapapi.com/Sample_Googlev3.aspx > > > > Then I tried to run it locally but I received this error, and no > > > heatmap overlay appeared. > > > > "map.getBounds "is not a function" > > > I am running firebug on firefox and this error occurred here: > > > Heatmap.js line 36 > > > > I uploaded to my external site, the error went away, but still no > > > heatmap overlay. > > > here is where I ran the file: > > > >http://home.comcast.net/~rickandjudith/maps/map-simple19.html > > > > If someone can figure out what I am doing wrong, it would be greatly > > > appreciated, thanks in advance! > > > > -rick > > > > -- > > > 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. -- 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.
