Google Maps API v3 - Get map by address ?
i am new to google maps, and i would like to integrate it into my website ( Yellow pages kind of site ).
i currently have the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397, 150.644);
var myOptions = { zoom: 8, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP };
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map_canvas" style="width: 500px; height: 300px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(229, 227, 223);"></div>
</body>
</html>
This code does work, and showing me the map for the specific Lat/Long
but, i want to be able to specifiy an address and not lat/long params, since i do have the addresses of the companies in the phonebook, but do not have the lat/long values.
i tried searching for this, but i only found something similar on the V2 version, which was deprecated.
Answer
What you are looking for is Geocode feature in google service; first give an address to get a LatLng, then call setCenter to pan the map to the specific location. Google's API wrapped it very good and you can see how it works through this example:
var geocoder;
var map;
function initialize() {
geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397, 150.644);
var mapOptions = {
zoom: 8,
center: latlng
}
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), mapOptions);
}
function codeAddress() {
var address = document.getElementById('address').value;
geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
position: results[0].geometry.location
});
} else {
alert('Geocode was not successful for the following reason: ' + status);
}
});
}
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);