I need to show a newspaper reach on my website based on postal codes. I have read that Google Maps doesn't have an API for it, so I tried to find some alternatives.
However, I found nothing. So I am asking you, what would be the best and fastest thing to do in this situation? Are there any vector maps that have the administrative boundaries already made? And that can be connected with postal codes?
Google maps example of what I need
It seems like your purpose is marketing. On your website, you want people to see the coverage area / newspaper reach, so you only need images. Here is an answer, according to that assumption.
I suggest you make the exact images that will work best for you. (This is a common job for designers on many web development teams, and if you are having trouble creating high-quality images, I'm sure you can find someone who is skilled with it.)
Using Google (example search), you can find various free web applications that allow you to annotate maps. Save or screenshot your images and post them on your website.
Alternatively, using Google Maps, you can search for your postal code and screenshot the results. If you have multiple codes, you'll need to use an image editing program to combine them.
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I am interested in contributing my images to Google Maps. I have quite a few of them (few thousands). However, I cannot find any satisfactory method to do it. I find it time consuming and cumbersome to contribute images from the Maps, contributor page. Where you can only do it one by one, plus I have to find the images among others that I am not willing to contribute that live in my Google Albums account.
I wonder is there an API that allows me to upload images with an embedded location (e.g. GPS tag in exif) in bulk?
Or maybe there is a contributor method I am not aware of - like if I can create a photo album and somehow tell Google please use those images on a map, that would be grand!
Thank you for your help.
I checked this but as far as I understand this means the place/location becomes available to everyone. Can I add places that only my web-app will see? And perhaps allow some places to be seen only by certain users ... ?
Also - what is the thing with the API key: I did not notice any recent talk about it, but I understood that you have to use one now. Am I correct?
One last thing: how customizable this API really is? Can I add/remove places and their descriptions and perhaps make places custom-clickable (I see you can add markers etc link? I only started digging into GoogleMaps API so I am rushing this a bit, but answers would be very helpful so I can kickstart my developing.
What I would really like to do:
Embed a google maps search box for users to enter their address, complete with the auto-complete/detect functionality available on Google maps so that they won't have to enter a full address.
Calculate the distance from a fixed location (our warehouse) to the address they enter, and make this numerical information available for use in Javascript calculations.
It would be incredibly useful and rewarding for the company I work for, I can understand if it is indeed not possible but I really hope it is and welcome any and all suggestions..
I'm not asking for code, only resources where I can learn how to do this.
Thanks in advance.
To make a special fancy map, you need to use Google Maps API.
You can learn about what Google Maps API is, please visit the official site.
https://developers.google.com/maps/
for the new company site, they want a textbox that has an address, once the person clicks search a google map should appear with lots of points on that area. These points are places pre-defined in a database.
Is there any way I can implement this? A great example of this is on laterooms.com:
http://www.laterooms.com/en/k16296355_manchester-hotels.aspx
Thanks
I believe what you want is a mashup between simple geocoding (example available here):
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-simple
And places (example available here)
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/place-search
And you should be good to go.
you will find quite some good infos on this page here: see the examples and see what you can do with the code
https://developers.google.com/maps/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mark+zuckerberg+crunchbase
Guys, check out that search, in particular the first result's url. Crunchbase.com > People, and thus the people links to the /people section of the site.
How are they achieving it? I know Google algorithm is intelligent and looks for links and then makes the assumptions itself in cases, but is there any particular markup they are using to help Google to make these connections?
Google is light with details, but here's what they said in their announcement.
The information in these new hierarchies come from analyzing destination web pages. For example, if you visit the ProductWiki Spidersapien page, you'll see a series of similar links at the top, "Home> Toys & Games> Robots." These are standard navigational tools used throughout the web called "breadcrumbs," which webmasters frequently show on their sites to help users navigate. By analyzing site breadcrumbs, we've been able to improve the search snippet for a small percentage of search results, and we hope to expand in the future.