Lots of markers

[matt wood]

Hello, just after some general advice really; I need to create a page where the user can see the nearest, say, 10 markers to their position. My SQL Server contains around 700 of these points, which I need to somehow load for use within Javascript. I'm a total beginner with JS really... so far I've used JSON inside a VB.net page to calculate distances, create overlays etc, but all with hard coded values. Some general advice on the best way to load the info from my database into Javascript would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

- Matt

[Rossko]

> Hello, just after some general advice really; I need to create a page where
> the user can see the nearest, say, 10 markers to their position. My SQL
> Server contains around 700 of these points, which I need to somehow load for
> use within Javascript.

Some ideas here
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/articles.html
especially
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch_v3.html

[matt wood]

Much appreciated...