Customers on a Google Map

June 24, 2006

Customers on a Google Map

In the recent weeks I've played a little with customized Google Maps... using Delphi clients and Delphi data alongside.

One of the nice features of Google Maps is the ability, given to developers and web masters, to host customized maps on their own web sites. The available features of this free API are almost countless, and the documentation on the Google Maps API web site is superb.

In the last few weeks I've done quite a few experiments with maps and geocoding (the options of getting the coordinates of an address), using both Google and Yahoo services. I built web pages, customized web servers written in Delphi, client applications fething Yahoo map images, and more. Some of the work was displayed at the Delphi Day 2006 conference in Italy, including an image of the Italian towns where the attendees were from, including the number of people from each town.

This week, with the help of an intern (Jacopo), I've built a map with a very special set of addresses of customers... click on the markers and you'll see the company name: Can you tell where they come from? Can you find Underwater Sports Co.?

posted by marcocantu @ 1:05AM | 6 Comments [0 Pending]

6 Comments

Customers on a Google Map

 Many,many,many thanks for the info... really... it 
is amazing and I will use definetly for my 
customers.... Thank you again..

Comment by Lluis - Albert Research [] on June 24, 11:30

Customers on a Google Map

for commercial development you need google maps for 
enterprise at 10000$ a year?

http://www.google.com/enterprise/maps/faq.html

and only for US and Canada

i'll have to stick to m$ mappoint then... with its 
horrible designed activex.

Comment by TDaniel on June 26, 14:07

Enterprise Maps

In most cases the free version will be OK: "Of course,
the Google Maps API continues to be totally open for
free, publicly accessible sites, both non-profit &
commercial. The new Enterprise product doesn't change
the existing Google Maps API terms or product offering
in any way."

Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on June 26, 17:35

Customers on a Google Map

I don't do free, publicly accessible sites, both non-
profit & commercial.

Comment by TDaniel on June 27, 11:43

Customers on a Google Map

Hi Marco,

As a known authority of the Delphi community you cant 
leave us in the dark about thsi subject. You have to 
post some examples ;-)

Comment by Willem Luijk [] on June 29, 23:53

Customers on a Google Map

 Hi Marco,

Do you have made source code available for this
wonderful application ?

Cheers,
A.
(France)

Comment by Alain on January 4, 19:28

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