Automatically updating an image online

WhatsGoingOn

Hi all,

Not sure how to explain this, and don't think it is possible but...
I am doing a site for a friend who has no clue about computers, so I am doing a Content Management effort where he can update the text himself, that part is fine.
The site is to do with festivals throughout the country, so as he adds a new festival to the site, he adds in the details into the database and the festival details appear. However part of the site also includes a map where he wants to add the location of the festival on the map. Is there a 'content management' type way to do this. i.e. rather than editing the map offline and uploading it, does anyone know of a solution where I can enable him to do this online??

Cheers

ConsultClifford

WhatsGoingOn wrote:

Hi all,

Not sure how to explain this, and don't think it is possible but...
I am doing a site for a friend who has no clue about computers, so I am doing a Content Management effort where he can update the text himself, that part is fine.
The site is to do with festivals throughout the country, so as he adds a new festival to the site, he adds in the details into the database and the festival details appear. However part of the site also includes a map where he wants to add the location of the festival on the map. Is there a 'content management' type way to do this. i.e. rather than editing the map offline and uploading it, does anyone know of a solution where I can enable him to do this online??

Cheers

What type of content management system are you using?

Webmonkey

You could use GD - http://ie2.php.net/gd

Load the map into the control panel and use javascript to get the pixels of where you want to place the mark on the map, use php then to load the same image and place a mark on the position chosen.
Thats how i would do it

EDIT: I'm taking it for granted your using PHP/MySQL?

WhatsGoingOn

Webmonkey wrote:

You could use GD - http://ie2.php.net/gd

Load the map into the control panel and use javascript to get the pixels of where you want to place the mark on the map, use php then to load the same image and place a mark on the position chosen.
Thats how i would do it

EDIT: I'm taking it for granted your using PHP/MySQL?

Apologies, should have mentioned that yes, I am using PHP/MySQL, Thanks.

colm_c

Or another approach (one that I'm doing for a client) is to use Gmaps (http://maps.google.com)

They have a free API which allows you to generate a map on your site based on the data from Gmaps, and add custom markers and info to the map.

The markers can contain quite a bit of info can be pulled in via an xml file using geo-coordinates (longitude and latitude)...

Maybe a little outside the scope of your project but still very cool...

WhatsGoingOn

colm_c wrote:

Or another approach (one that I'm doing for a client) is to use Gmaps (http://maps.google.com)

They have a free API which allows you to generate a map on your site based on the data from Gmaps, and add custom markers and info to the map.

The markers can contain quite a bit of info can be pulled in via an xml file using geo-coordinates (longitude and latitude)...

Maybe a little outside the scope of your project but still very cool...

That looks good alright. Don't think I'll use it for this project but will def keep it in mind for future ones. How do you add in your own custom markers?

Serbian

colm_c wrote:

Or another approach (one that I'm doing for a client) is to use Gmaps (http://maps.google.com)

They have a free API which allows you to generate a map on your site based on the data from Gmaps, and add custom markers and info to the map.

The markers can contain quite a bit of info can be pulled in via an xml file using geo-coordinates (longitude and latitude)...

Maybe a little outside the scope of your project but still very cool...

What countries does Google Maps contain information for? Is it just the UK and US?

Edit: Nevermind, just took and look and it contains just about anywhere, pretty cool.

colm_c

To use your own markers you need to sign up for the API

http://maps.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

And there's instructions and all the functions you need to set it up...

WhatsGoingOn

colm_c wrote:

To use your own markers you need to sign up for the API

http://maps.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

And there's instructions and all the functions you need to set it up...

Thanks Colm
Have you the url of a geocoder that you used to generate your map coordinates?