Best "moves" to registering addresses using GMapez

[adrian...@creativewebsolutions.com.mx]

Hi People,

Here I want to create a CREATIVE post, you´ll see why. Could every
body share how to they manage to create the URL for Gmapez...????

With my app, we have done an iframe to show google Maps website inside
our website app, then we search the location using google search
tools, and local drag until we find the spot, double click (center the
page) and copy the Link to This page. Then we save that URL address
form Link to this page, into our DB with a joint to the information
for that spot.

I wonder if there is a simpler why to catch the URL for Gmapez to pin
it?

[Adam Estrada]

Can you post a URL to look at? Its kinda vague as to what it is that you are doing!

A

-----Original Message-----
From: adrian...@creativewebsolutions.com.mx

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:56:59
To: Google Maps EZ<Google-...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [GMapEZ] Best "moves" to registering addresses using GMapez

[Trueskool]

To be honest, getting the link isn't really all that hard difficult,
just bookmark the link to google maps and everytime you wish to find a
link just search for it. If the location comes up, click link to the
page, copy it, and your done.

I had to submit around 170 different markers to a single google maps
page (and still counting), I actually created a PHP script so I could
easily add, edit, and delete the information for the makers. Even with
all of that I still just simply had an input field on the submit form
where I entered the link just like said above.

Personally I think GMap's makes it much easier for you to do it this
way then having to give the actual geographical coordinates.

If you really wanted which would probably be lots of work you could
create a form with input fields such as city, state, zip, and name.
And If you are using php using the post method echo a generated link
which would out put all of the main static google code for linking to
apartments, and then add the variables into it.

and make the script output something along the lines of this format
(only showing zip code)

<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=<?php echo
$zip; ?>"></a>

Don't know if any of this will help you, but good luck.

[Chouser]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Trueskool <james...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=<?php echo
> $zip; ?>"></a>

Actually it's important that the URL you give to GMapEZ has at least
the "ll" field (latitude and longitude) filled out. The best way to
do this is after you do your address or business search on Google
Maps, *double-click* on the exact location where you want the marker,
and *then* copy the link URL Google provides.

--Chouser

[adrian...@creativewebsolutions.com.mx]

Thank you people, well, for now the way we solve it is by opening an
iframe with the google maps engine so the user can search for the
exact location and click on map to center it. Then he go and copy
paste the "link to this page" URL to a submit form in the same page.
By this we save the URL in a register in the data base. Then the table
containing the google maps URLs is joint with the profile for the
realty.

I wonder if it is possible to make a function while using Gmapez to
double click and save the URL without copy paste.

We develop with Ruby and Rails.

-- Adrian