Google Maps API/Fuckery

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So, my boss has come at me with an ambitious request, he wants a Google map that is similar in function to the following site: Washington Wine Commission | Washington State—The Perfect Climate for Wine

The site allows you to choose certain regions, certain types of wine, winery by name, amenities, overlays of wine regions etc. With that, you can click on wineries and add them to your tour. Once you have a few together you can view the tour which takes you to another page where it shows the wineries in your tour, their order and a map showing the directions to each winery in order.

I am not that familiar with Google Maps, the extent of my knowledge is implementing a map and setting the default location....

Does anyone know of some good resources to learn about Google maps and functionality this complex?
 


LazyD said:
Does anyone know of some good resources to learn about Google maps and functionality this complex?
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Not to be funny but Google Maps API contains the documentation, the blog, the discussion group...

You might be able to piece something together out of Joomla and some of the Google Maps add-on components.
 
With Google maps you need a good geoCode knowledge or have a good Lat-Lon DB if you have either of this, its a piece of cake.

These guys are using .kml files from google earth to place the markers you can try that.
 
Google will do the GeoCode if you pass them a US address.

Be prepared to sharpen up your OOP Javascript skills.

Also, if for some reason you're better at flash than javascript, yahoo maps can do similar things but gives you a flash api to work with.
 
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