I discovered mootools just a few weeks ago and have already done some very cool things on a new project - and I'm not even a real programmer. Many thanks to the mootools developers. Now I need help with something beyond my ability, but it seems like it should be easy.
My users currently fill out a form containing address, city and state. I can pass that to Google Maps and the maps come up centered on that basic location. But in many cases the location shown by Google isn't exactly correct. That's a big problem if Google shows it on the wrong side of a major highway for example. So, I would like to use the original address as the starting point on a map and then allow the user to adjust the map so it's centered on the proper place. The user can drag the map around and zoom in, and then double clicking on the Google map centers it on the new location. I need to extract the latitude and longitude of that center point to save in a database after the user is satisfied with the positioning of the map. I can do everything myself except the most important thing - get the actual lat/long coordinates as the user adjusts the map. Possible? Impossible? Already done by some mootools add-on? Let me know if you can help.
