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Spontaneous
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I've decided to go ahead and pursue the championship maps application that I wanted to build (I indicated this in another thread). The idea being to map out champions from when all sports started.

I would like to have to the following features:
A slide bar where each tick represents a year.
Checkboxes that represent each sport (NFL, NBA, NCAA D-I Football, etc.) that upon being check/unchecked add or subtract the champions of that sport.
Down the line I might add runner-ups, playoffs, etc. and charts that represent champions by conference, division, etc.

I've found several options.
This website, http://www.backspace.com/mapapp/, offers the cheapest option, at only $20 per month, but does not seem to be dynamically driven.
Some more expensive options are FusionMaps (http://www.fusioncharts.com/maps/) and iMapBuilder (http://www.imapbuilder.com/) both of which have most of the features I want.
Finally, there is amMap (http://www.ammap.com/) which has a timeline feature, but is centrally located in Europe. I feel like they would rip me off. All options support JavaScript (and also AJAX).

Also, I'm not sure if it would be better to dynamically create the XML using PHP or to use PHP and/or Perl to create each individual XML file. I'm getting the data for the XML from an SQL database, but maybe I shouldn't.

Anyway, has anyone used any of the aforemention software suites? Should I just learn Flash?

9/10/2009 4:22:42 PM

BigMan157
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the google maps api can probably do what you need

look through http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/demogallery.html for ideas

[Edited on September 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM. Reason : it's not gonna do it alone though]

9/10/2009 4:28:14 PM

qntmfred
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google maps is pretty much the standard for maps mashups

9/10/2009 4:47:25 PM

Spontaneous
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Sweet deal!

9/10/2009 5:03:05 PM

Ernie
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Don't do this in Flash

Don't do anything in Flash

9/10/2009 8:24:57 PM

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Got it.

So I found that Google Maps does a Timeline through an add-on called SIMILE and there is quite a prevalent AJAX add-on. So I need something to toggle layers. Apparently native support for adding and removing layers through checkboxes was removed in version 2.

9/10/2009 9:40:09 PM

Spontaneous
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Should I load the data for my markers from XML or KML?

9/14/2009 4:48:42 PM

qntmfred
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well, kml is specifically geared toward geographic data so i would think that would be the clear choice. but i haven't done a lot of maps api stuff so i couldn't really tell ya

9/14/2009 4:51:38 PM

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Apparently, there is support for both, and my stuff is already in XML with the data the way I want it. It wouldn't be too hard to KML it, though.

That's right. I verbed an initialism.

9/14/2009 6:30:11 PM

Spontaneous
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I need a code doctor:

http://www.confluential.org/index2.html
http://www.confluential.org/source.xml

My marker(s) aren't being made.

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 5:25 PM. Reason : Also, hahaha, GG Ernie!]

9/16/2009 5:14:52 PM

Ernie
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Quote :
"<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
This
is
a
placeholder.
</body>
</html>
"

Quote :
"Error 404 - Not found

Your browser can't find the document corresponding to the URL you typed in."

9/16/2009 5:20:21 PM

Spontaneous
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FRIG!

http://www.confluential.org/GoogleMaps/index2.html
http://www.confluential.org/GoogleMaps/source.xml

9/16/2009 5:24:57 PM

Spontaneous
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NVM, this site helped me.

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/04/v277-gmarker-show-hide-and-ishidden.html

9/16/2009 9:15:19 PM

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