Alternative to google maps API

[_Bat_]

I'm gonna have to look for that CoffeyVille Municipal Airport. Maybe Birmingham Airport just down the road renamed themselves, hehe.

[webman]

Isn't geocode lookup using that method against Google TOS?

[plugged_in]

8O
I dont know tbh. Its the same as just going into google typing in your address and getting the lat & long from there and using it on your own system.

I hope not.

[_Bat_]

I can't get it to work anyway. Do you know what i did wrong? That map ends up on a remote location on the borders of Kansas and Oklahoma.

[plugged_in]

eh? i have just looked at the link and it works fine. i can see you are beside yardley park.
Clear your cache and try it
IE >> tools >> options >> delete files.

This is the link i used and it comes up in IE7 and Firefox.
http://www.theovalprimary.co.uk/maps...code=B33%208JG

[_Bat_]

Hmm, dunno what happened with mine the first time lol.

You are right, the birds eye view looks quite amazing. I'll remove the little bits of text at the top and incorpororate it. As for using the google servers... i'll look into that and see what I can find.

The only other issue is the location it finds with the postcode... it finds a location about 100 metres to the right of the school, is there any easy fix for that?

[webman]

To get the coords, go to Google maps UK, double-click where you want the map to centre on, and click 'Link to this page' at the top. The references will be in the resulting URL.

[plugged_in]

If you want too just use the lat and long co-ords then remove the top PHP script i wrote and look for the line:

map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(<?= $lat;?>, <?= $lon;?>), 12 ,'r' ,false);

and enter the co-ords in the respective places.

[_Bat_]

Thanks for that tip webman and thanks for the code plugged, that script will prove very useful. I'll probably add it to the site via an inline frame or external popup(I don't think there is any other way as I cannot easily edit code above the BODY tags of the pages of my site.

[plugged_in]

no stress dude.
Do you mind me asking why you cant edit above the BODY tags?

[_Bat_]

I could do it with PHP I guess. There is another rather long thread on this forum where I had to have a unique header code and body tag on several pages of my virtual tour. That was resolved with PHP so I should really just use the same code again (I hate frames )

[webman]

The way I did unique HEAD includes on pages was to get the page ID or name (as long as it's unique) in the template/core file, then something like @include("inc/$page.php").

[plugged_in]

Yeah thats what i would do aswell using $_GET['pageID'] create an if statement to show the various includes.

[webman]

An If/Switch statement in this instance would slow it down if you wanted to do this for a large number of pages. Either checking the existance of the file to be included or surpressing the errors of the include function would be a quicker solution I think.

[_Bat_]

Quick question,

I have just been playing with this and got around to changing the pin and realised that the pin doesn't appear at all in firefox (it works in IE). Do you have any idea why this might be?

Thanks

James