I plan to display a Google map on the admin side that when clicked on will store the lat and long for that record in the db. This will get around their geocoding limitations.
> To Ray: no it isn't. custom code. > > To Tony: I can do geo code lookups fro free with Google's API ... > just > limited to how many a day. > > > Sample code for the geocode is here. It's a JavaScript function. If I > pull > the data out of the DB .. and want to show the resulting map on the > page, > without the submission of a form to do so ... > > Is the call to the function as easy as this: > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; > xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> > <title>Google Maps API Example: Simple Geocoding</title> > <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2. x&key=ABQIAAAAzr2EBOXUKn> m_jVnk0OJI7xSosDVG8KKPE1-m51RBrvYughuyMxQ-i1QfUnH94QxWIa6N4U6MouMmBA" > type="text/javascript"></script> > <script type="text/javascript"> > > var map = null; > var geocoder = null; > > function initialize() { > if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { > map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas")); > map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13); > geocoder = new GClientGeocoder(); > } > } > > function showAddress(address) { > if (geocoder) { > geocoder.getLatLng( > address, > function(point) { > if (!point) { > alert(address + " not found"); > } else { > map.setCenter(point, 13); > var marker = new GMarker(point); > map.addOverlay(marker); > marker.openInfoWindowHtml(address); > } > } > ); > } > } > </script> > </head> > > <body onload="initialize()" onunload="GUnload()"> > <form action="#" onsubmit="showAddress(this.address.value); return > false"> > <p> > <input type="text" size="60" name="address" value="1600 > Amphitheatre Pky, Mountain View, CA" /> > <input type="submit" value="Go!" /> > </p> > <div id="map_canvas" style="width: 500px; height: 300px"></div> > </form> > > </body> > </html> > > > since Im not even close to being a JS guru - im lost as to how to > force it to show the address. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290029 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
