May 05 2008
The Travel Map is Alive and Kicking
Just a short note to let you all know that the ‘Map‘ link at the top of the page has finally had some life breathed into it. All of the links will take you out to my Wanderstruck travel blog but it might be handy for anyone who wants to read about the travel side of things by location.
I rigged the thing up with Google Maps which I think are great little things. I’ve got so many ideas for sites using Google Maps and wish I had more knowledge on how to use them. I managed to struggle my way through and the people over at the Google Maps Group are ridiculously helpful and saved me from pulling all my hair out on several occasions. I keep meaning to sit down and learn more but I really should master CSS first before branching out.
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I've been travelling since January 2008 living off earnings from the web. Follow me as I bum around Asia and beyond, getting up to mischief and working online as I go.
That is very cool ! I have just bought photoshop elements 6 and it seems to have a map functions for your photos too. Do you know of amything on the web where u can combine your photos and your posts too - if not maybe u should write it for all travel blog writers!
You know those popup windows? You can pretty much put whatever you want in those things so putting photos in is ok. I did that over on my London site. But it’s pretty fiddly. I don’t know of anything to make things easy and automatic or anything.
Hello,
At google maps website, there are a few articles (http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=11364) that explain how to create google maps. Particularly, the article “Creating a Store Locator with PHP, MySQL & Google Maps” goes in details and is very interesting.
From this article, we can show item on a map from a database. It is simple then after to create a form on an admin part of a website that would store infos about a business (name, address, photo maybe, others…) in a database and have the google map displaying all the businesses directly. I did that a while ago and I am thinking of adding it on my website at some point. I will let you know then.