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Incorporating a user editable map into a website

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  • 26-01-2011 11:41pm
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    okedoke
    Registered Users Posts: 924 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    clueless about all things web design/development related.

    I'm wondering could you incorporate a mapm(preferably a google map) into a website that users could edit - kind of a wiki-map, if there is such a thing?

    thanks

    okedoke


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Exactly what part of the map would you want edited? The actual imagery / roads etc or pointers on it?


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    okedoke
    Registered Users Posts: 924 ✭✭✭okedoke


    Just the placemarks


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Yeah, I'm sure something like that is possible. It's definitely easy to put placemarkers on a map using whatever technology you want (e.g. a site like daft.ie putting placemarkers on a map to show houses).

    I don't know what the Google Maps API provides in terms of any user dropping a marker on a map on your site, and you being able to capture and save the details though.

    Try their documentation and see what it says.


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    You can defiantly get points from click events in Javascript, just save them to your database.


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    okedoke
    Registered Users Posts: 924 ✭✭✭okedoke


    Thanks folks - will follow those tips up


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