Projects

jMaps

jMaps is a jQuery plugin that provides a really easy API to create and manage multiple google maps on any page. * Geocode and reverse any valid address in the world via Google's geocoding API * Search for directions to and from any location * Add and remove Markers * Add ... [More] and remove polygons and polylines * Add and remove graphic layers on the map * Add and remove Google adsense layers * Add and remove Traffic layers * Get information back such as map center, map size, map type, etc [Less]

hivemaps

HiveMaps was created to make it super simple to mashup thousands of data markers onto a Google Map without having the browser grind to a halt. HiveMaps has been used in production with over 5k points. Performance was good in FireFox, Safari, and Chrome. Internet Explorer has a hard time ... [More] handling over 3k points on most computers, but HiveMaps prevents IE from locking up. If you want to use HiveMaps, it's highly recommended that you grab the latest source version. The 1.0 download is out of date and does not have many of the optimization features. The map API is subject to change. A stable API will be released with v1.1. Home: http://socialhive.org/hivemaps/ Demo: http://hivemaps.socialhive.org Currently Supports: marker clustering via an improved version of MarkerClusterer Google Maps AJAX loading of XML or JSON marker data location based search via Google geocoding dynamic HTML list of markers visible on the map embedding of maps on other web sites popup list when overlapping markers are clicked back button support location detection (in SVN) In-Development Features: street view support clustering and zoom based on political boundaries support for alternate map base layers server-side clustering (through a separate project) stylized custom info window popups [Less]

jquery-geocodable

IntroThe geocodable plugin provides an easy way to present a text field to a user, and geocode their address input. It currently uses google for geocoding, normalizing the placemark data from google and presenting a disambiguation popup if necessary. RequirementsTested with jQuery 1.3.2 Tested ... [More] with Firefox 3.0/Linux, Firefox 3.5/Mac, Safari/Mac+Windows, IE 6.0+ Google Maps API Key UsageJavascriptYou'll need to insure that the Google Maps API is pre-loaded so we have access to the Geocoder object. At some future point the plugin could accept a key and auto-load the Google Map libraries, but it doesn't now. Given the following code: You can make the location field geocodable (assuming you've already loaded the Google Maps library) by: // ExamplesMinimal examples can be seen here: http://www.roarmouse.org/jquery-geocodable/index.html CSSThe code depends on two styles; the example above uses (these are slightly off for Safari, haven't tracked it down yet): .disambiguation { background-color: white; color: black; display: none; position: absolute; z-index: 1; padding: 0px 3px 3px 3px; border: 1px solid gray; border-top-width: 0px; } .disambiguationLink { margin: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 2px; cursor: pointer; font-size: .8em; }DocumentationSee the code. Options include: disambiguationCallback: a function to present the results of geocoding if there are more than one choiceCallback: a function to handle the users' choice after disambiguation onSumbit: boolean, should geocoding fire on form.submit() onBlur: boolean, should geocoding fire on field blur submitOnFailure: boolean, should we submit even if geocoding failed countries: countries we allow results from; any geocoded marks outside of these countries won't be presented implicitCountries: countries we hide the country name for when showing addresses baseCountryCode: override for browser-based country code when geocoding mapCountry: whether to map a country abbreviation to a country name mapRegion: whether to map a region abbreviation to a region name IssuesInternationalization is a huge problem here for the two 'map' options. The disambiguation callback can be handled better. Need to mark fields as "geocoded" so we don't re-geocode, though the local cache should mitigate this. [Less]