If you have your own database of dropbox locations, then its a straightforward Store Locator situation. After obtaining the user's location you perform an SQL search on your database and return a modest number of the locations to the Javascript to be plotted. Don't try to plot 12000 locations simultaneously.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html If you don't have your own database of locations, then after obtaining the user's location you can make Local Search calls to the Google AJAX Search API. Make separate calls for each business name and merge the results into one array. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch -- Mike Williams http://econym.org.uk/gmap -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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-api?hl=en.
