Google maps

is there a way, or does google allow you to put google maps on your site, but in such a way that your visitors are able to complete the whole search one your site?

I know they let you put on maps. But im looking for what i stated above..
Thanks for any help you can give.
Nick

 

I don't think so!
Who will visit Google Maps then?

 

You can.
Google Maps is still Beta, and hence they probably are not thinking of making money from it.

 

yeh how though? :S

 

I would also like to know how?

If you can.

 

I am sorry if I have misunderstood. I presume that you want a address search capability on your site.

That is, you want to provide a textInput field and a google map, if the user puts in some address in the field you want map to focus on that area with a marker on the address.

If yes, see the documentation http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/index.html ( I know you might have referred to it.)

Basically you submit a AJAX request to google.com and they come back to you with lattitude and longitude, then you use maps API to create a marker overlay. Getting lat/lng for an address is called as geocoding in Google terms.

Please see this link:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding

I did a site for a client, if you want I can pm you site name. There few advances in mapping from then, now they have popwerful concept called maplets to make your life easier.

If I have completely misunderstood your requirement, please ignore.

 

Does anybody know if there is a site that has copy and paste codes for example maps. Or perhaps a company that will build my map and I can add in my code.

 

Hi,

You can refer to Google samples, if you have some experience in Java Script and HTML, with a little effort you should be able to do that.

I am providing you link from their samples using which I learned.

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/index.html. They have a list of very good examples. Just try your hands with that.

If you are hosting on some server, don't forget to apply for a key.

But if you can specify a bit more about your requirement, I can help in a better way.

 

Thanks for all the replies.. i am very confused i have little to no experience with javascript.

 

I understand, it can be a pain, if you don't have experience in that area.
I can do that for you. If you want you can pm me the details.