Posts Tagged ‘google maps’

Add a dynamic (google) map to your site.

Adding a dynamic map to your website is relatively straightforward. Using the Google Maps API you can embed a map in your web pages. With further configuration you can add markers, icons, labels and even suggest directions to users. Any map embedded on your pages has the same  zoom and movement functionality as at Google Maps. The first step is to sign up for a key. This is dependent on the URL of the page in which you wish to embed your map, so it is a good idea to put all map pages in the same directory to save having to get separate keys for each one. The next step is to look at the examples provided by Google. These will give you all the methods you require for using the API. If you don’t fancy getting your hands dirty with the API code but would like a map on your site why not drop us an email here at the Trilobita Partnership. We can set up a map from as little as £25. Just use our contact page to get in touch!

Google maps icons

Here are some links to some useful tools for getting and / or making icons for google maps

http://www.nps.gov/hfc/carto/map-symbols.htm

http://econym.googlepages.com/geicons.htm

http://www.visual-case.it/cgi-bin/vc/GMapsIcons.pl

http://www.cycloloco.com/shadowmaker/shadowmaker.htm

Google Maps API with PHP and MySQL

For a good tutorial about using PHP and MySQL with Google Maps API have a look at:-

http://code.google.com/support/bin/ answer.py?answer=65622&topic=11364

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