Google Maps API :: Help Needed

[cancer10]

Hi

I was wondering if there is any way I can display a google map by just passing the street address, city and country name in the API instead of Longitude and Latitude and the locations would appear as balloons as shown in the attached screenshot.


Pls help me.


Many Thanks

[djr33]

I have no idea about the specifics of the API, and I would guess that unfortunately few users here do, because it is a specialized bit of knowledge.

However, I do know that the website can accept other variables in the url, like address, so you can attempt either to mimic that or find how to input in that way if they include that in the API.

I hope you figure it out.

[codeexploiter]

Hi,

You can find out the latitude and longitude of a location that you want through Google Map API and can tag the location without much trouble.

Google Map API provides a class GClientGeocoder for that purpose. Here is one such example that works on a provided location name here. Just provide the location name in the provided textbox and hit the button. The JS code will find out the latitude and longitude and tag the location.

Here is another good article about Google Maps.

You can just learn from the demo page mentioned above and develop your own page with the changes that you want to apply in your case.

Hope this helps.