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Google Maps
By klard | August 3, 2006
I have created a google map application incorporating the rental properties that I get from the Mid Florida Regional MLS at the Lakeland Rental Properties site and I am very excited about how it is turning out. The impetus behind the previous post about Postgres was related to this effort, however I have reverted back to Mysql as I determined that the Postgis stuff was too much for what I was doing. Anyway, just an overview about what I am doing on this new map and maybe I will get into specifics later. I am using a combination of perl and php to accomplish this. I am using a perl script to pull data out of the database and a combination of Google geocode and Yahoo geocode to get the latitude and longitude of each address. Then I am putting the results into a seperate table. The map is running against a php script and using a couple of new features in Gmap 2 including moveend, getLatLng and getBounds. The big changes I have made is that I am not plotting points or generating the XML file unless there are fewer than 50 points in the bounds of the current map. This change finally makes the maps fast enough to use.
Topics: Google Maps Mashup, PHP, Web Design |