$Bill Luebkert Sent on 04 Aug 2005 07:36:35 -0700:
> Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>
>> One answer to the question I asked earlier:
>>
>> > I would like to show multiple addresses on a map -- from
>> > a "user PC" (rather than from a "web-server"). I am
>
> Why not a webserver on your local PC ? You can easily install
> Apache on your PC from Apache.org.
Thanks for the suggestion and mentioning (below) your experience
using GoogleMaps with it.
I suspect that one can also write a perl script that acts as a
simple HTTP server and works with GoogleMaps -- but I don't know
where to start for coding and for seeing examples of such scripts.
I would like to explore this before getting into Apache.
Any suggestions?
>> > hoping to have a perl script read in a list of addresses
>> > and generate a html page. All the input addresses would
>> > be within about 20 miles of each other; and each address
>> > in the list would have a html link associated with it.
>> > Viewing the html page generated by the perl script in a
>> > browser should show a map with markers for each address
>> > in the list. Clicking on the marker should open a new
>> > browser for the html link associated with that address.
>> >
>> > Can the preceding be done? Any suggestions?
>>
>> is WebServer::GoogleMaps.
>>
>> To install on Windows, just end up with the file
>> <path>perl/site/libWebService/GoogleMaps.pm
>> Then change line 57 in GoogleMaps.pm from
>> $self->{gm_version} ||= ".1";
>> to
>> $self->{gm_version} ||= ".3";
>> (Preceding modification is from a post to CPAN::Forum
>> by Michael Burns on Sat Jun 18 20:38:18 2005.)
>> Then run the two main examples and look at the resulting
>> images mymap.png and goodeats.png.
>
> I would consider using HTML::GoogleMaps instead and bring up the
> Google map interactive so you can pan and zoom direct from the
> Google site. You can get a free key for your machine (I got one
> for 127.0.0.1 and used that on my PC).
Thanks,
--Suresh
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