You might want to check into integrating with mapquest or the like... iirc mapquest (if not yahoo or msn maps) have tools (web services?) to integrating their maps into your site, so all you have to do is send them the address(es) you want identified on the map.
hth ike ------ Original Message ------ From: Hagan, Ryan Mr (Contractor ACI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Aug 29, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Dealer locator >Greetings, > >I'm working on a dealer locator for a manufacturing company. The company >has about 5 dealers in each state. I'd like to make this as dynamic as >possible, so that the company can simply use an online interface to enter in >the zip code of each dealer and have a nice little dot appear on a US Map on >their website. This prevents me from having to manually insert (or remove) >a dot each time a dealer comes, leaves or moves (which actually happens very >often). > >My obstacle, of course, is translating Lat - Long into screen / image >coordinates for my map. Has anyone done this before or have any clues that >will help me? As always, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > >Ryan Hagan >ph: 540-731-3588 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
