google map makers?

[daveh0]

Is anyone aware of any free or inexpensive applications that will generate the code to render a Google map? It would be an interface where you could add markers and locations and whatnot...

http://www.weddingmapper.com (http://www.weddingmapper.com/) pretty much does exactly what I'm looking for. The problem with them is that the only way to display the map you create on your own web site is to create an <iframe> that loads the map from their server. I'd like to make some modifications to the way it all displays and add a few custom features on top of what they provide... can't be done unless the code itself (not an <iframe>) is on my web page...

I found a few crude applications on the web but nothing that great. Anyone know any others?

[Scott Pruett]

go read: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

what are you trying to accomplish?

[daveh0]

yeah I've messed around with the API a bit. It's A LOT to digest. I'm pretty much trying to accomplish everything that is included in this map: http://www.weddingmapper.com/wedding/commercial_view/09nb6r?show_title=true&show_location_list=true#101%3C1045S7E10737.33Q09-122.1b;Y0

However, I'm not crazy about their visual design/layout and UI elements, I'd like something without another company's logo plastered all over it and I wanted to make some enhancements like having the ability to show/hide markers for a specific category of locations (ex. you would click a checkbox next to the "restaurants" menu item in the sidebar and just the markers for restaurants would be displayed...)

I'm confident that I can put it all together myself by getting down and dirty with the API and/or deconstructing Wedding Mapper's source code... but since theyreally are acheiving 98% of what I'm looking to do, I was trying not to have to reinvent the wheel.

Anyway, just curious if anyone knew about any other applications that do most of the grunt work for Google maps.

[Scott Pruett]

Gotcha.

Dunno, never heard of an app that custom tailors the GMap API. If one exists, I'm interested. I'm partway through an implementation myself, albeit for a different project that unfortunately took the back burner. This stuff can get complex.

[cypresss]

maybe this tool can be useful to you [AJAX APIs Playground (http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#simple_map)] See those samples:) and modify them
and maybe you will like this one too[Geomap (http://code.google.com/intl/ro/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/geomap.html)]

[cypresss]

see this website. it's something similar with what are you trying to do.
http://www.londontown.com/hotelmapbeta/
great site:)