Nice little quick tutorial here for anyone planning to use GMaps in their applications. I've been using 'live pages' with querystrings until discovering this little server control.

anyway, take a look:

http://gathadams.com/2007/08/21/add-...in-10-minutes/

jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com

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jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com

Jimi,

Would you happen to know if it is possible to use the Google-Maps functionality, but with one's own map? I've read a bit superficially, but let me explain my idea.

The game my site will be built around has a few maps (Any MMORPG actually has maps). The map can contain coordinates. Now I would love to be able to hook up the map from the game into Google Maps somehow, and then be able to put markers etc at places of interest.

Would you happen to know if this can be done at all?

Thanks!

Peter

http://entropia-online.blogspot.com/

Peter,

To be honest, i don't know if the googlamaps api is 'split' as such (i.e. whether there is a 'datasource' property that can either be a google map or a userdefined object (map). i'd imagine that the must be something somewhere that defines this as it's possible to use 3 different settings to view the maps (map/satellite/hybrid). I'm 'presuming' that somewhere there is a definiton for which oject layer is being presented with the reference 'overlay' on top of it.

you might want to try to contact the gmaps guys (it's a spanish website, but both english and spanish are used) to see if they've delved into this domain.

sorry to not be of much help here.

jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com

Hi again and thanks, jimi.

I did a bit of googling, and found some stuff after using the term game combined with Google Maps. I will see what that yields, and will post in this thread if I figure it out :)

http://entropia-online.blogspot.com/

good stuff... i've really got into the GMaps.dll for the current site that i'm working on. part of the 'requirement' (ok, not really a requirement as i'm creating the spec as i need) is to have a map attached to any postcodes on an events calendar, so that punters can get an idea of where a venue is. one lovely side effect of adding the GMap.dll was the fat that i suddenly realised that google maps also allows you to request 'directions' from one postcode to another. A little bit of rooting around and sure enough, Gmaps incorporates this functionality too (it uses dhtml to add the spans into a predefined div element which contain each step of the direction info). so for 'free' i get to be able to allow the visitor to not only see where the venue is, but also to optionally request directions to get there...

wonderful!!

(you can check this out at: http://www.originaltalent.com/jimibt and then click on the 'Events' tab. after this, click on any of the events in September and it'll take you to the google functionality tabs - then 'play' :) )

edit: just noticed that my css for gmaps doesn't behave very nicely in firefox (fine in ie). any tips greatfully received!!
jimi

http://www.originaltalent.com