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Beatnik (493)
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http://www.ldl48.org/
A 29 year old belgian who likes Mountain Dew, Girl Scout Cookies, Tim Hortons French Vanilla Flavoured Cappucinno, Belgian beer, Belgian chocolate, Belgian women, Magners Cider, chocolate chipped cookies and Perl. Likes snowboarding, snorkling, sailing and silence. Bach can really cheer him up! He still misses his dog.
Project Daddy of Spine [sf.net], a mod_perl based CMS.
In his superhero time (8.30 AM to 5.30 PM), he works on world peace.
Google Maps Geocodes
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Google Maps JavaScript API Example</title>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2.x&key=USE-YOUR-OWN-KEY-HER E"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var map;
var geocoder;
function load() {
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(34, 0), 1);
geocoder = new GClientGeocoder();
}
// addAddressToMap() is called when the geocoder returns an
// answer. It adds a marker to the map with an open info window
// showing the nicely formatted version of the address and the country code.
function addAddressToMap(response) {
map.clearOverlays();
if (!response || response.Status.code != 200) {
alert("Sorry, we were unable to geocode that address");
} else {
place = response.Placemark[0];
point = new GLatLng(place.Point.coordinates[1],
place.Point.coordinates[0]);
marker = new GMarker(point);
map.addOverlay(marker);
marker.openInfoWindowHtml(place.address + '<br>' +
'<b>Country code:</b> ' + place.AddressDetails.Country.CountryNameCode+'<br>1:'+place.Point.coordinates[1] +'<br>0:'+place.Point.coordinates[0]);
}
}
// showLocation() is called when you click on the Search button
// in the form. It geocodes the address entered into the form
// and adds a marker to the map at that location.
function showLocation() {
var address = document.forms[0].q.value;
geocoder.getLocations(address, addAddressToMap);
}
// findLocation() is used to enter the sample addresses into the form.
function findLocation(address) {
document.forms[0].q.value = address;
showLocation();
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body onload="load()">
<!-- Creates a simple input box where you can enter an address
and a Search button that submits the form.//-->
<form action="#" onsubmit="showLocation(); return false;">
<p>
<b>Search for an address:</b>
<input type="text" name="q" value="" class="address_input" size="40"/>
<input type="submit" name="find" value="Search"/>
</p>
</form>
<div id="map" style="width: 500px; height: 300px"></div>
<!-- Sample addresses//-->
<p><b>Try these:</b><br/>
<a href="javascript:void(0)"
onclick="findLocation('43 Church Street, Parry Sound, ON P2A 1Y6, Canada');return false;">43 Church Street, Parry Sound, ON P2A 1Y6, Canada</a><br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
As an example address, I used a nice bed and breakfast I stayed a few years ago. See it in action here.
I pour myself a cup of strong coffee. :-)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
Geocoding (Score:1)
http://geocoder.us/ [geocoder.us] service [NonCommercial-ShareAlike and Commercial licenses]
http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/ [cpan.org] engine library [Perl GPL+Artistic]
using same public USG database as everyone else.
Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;
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Bill
# I had a sig when sigs were cool
use Sig;