Re: [Chicken-users] Google maps implementation (was Map with Chicken users)

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

> The following is pretty much all that's needed:
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/async.html
> 
> The webapp must publish a suitable data.xml, in the
> following format:
> 
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/data.xml
> 
> That's it. Just copy the Javascript to the Chicken
> users map page, and expose data.xml. Oh yeah, the
> default zoom needs to be changed, and we need to get a
> Google Maps API key.

I figured that actually implementing this would probably take less
time than discussing with you two, so I decided to go ahead and do it:

    http://chicken.wiki.br/xsvnwiki-map/gmap.html

In the end, I must say it only took around 20 minutes.

Improvements to gmap.html, specially from people that do understand
the Google Maps API, would be more than welcome.  ;-) It would be
great to make it possible to click in the markers to get users' names
and go to their pages in the wiki.  And maybe getting the height of
the div correctly would be good.

By the way, I'm generating this:

    http://chicken.wiki.br/xsvnwiki-map/users.xml

If you have other creative users for this file, let us know!  Working
code is better than just suggestions, which are themselves better than
criticism for doing things a certain way.  ;-)

Alejo.
http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/