Incorporating a user editable map into a website

okedoke

Hi all,
clueless about all things web design/development related.

I'm wondering could you incorporate a mapm(preferably a google map) into a website that users could edit - kind of a wiki-map, if there is such a thing?

thanks

okedoke

Eoin

Exactly what part of the map would you want edited? The actual imagery / roads etc or pointers on it?

okedoke

Just the placemarks

Eoin

Yeah, I'm sure something like that is possible. It's definitely easy to put placemarkers on a map using whatever technology you want (e.g. a site like daft.ie putting placemarkers on a map to show houses).

I don't know what the Google Maps API provides in terms of any user dropping a marker on a map on your site, and you being able to capture and save the details though.

Try their documentation and see what it says.

aidan_walsh

You can defiantly get points from click events in Javascript, just save them to your database.

okedoke

Thanks folks - will follow those tips up