Hi, I am currently working on a website which contains a register of Organisations (Names, Address, Postcode ect).

All details are held on a MySQL Database.

Is it possible to load a google map when a perticular Organisations details are displayed on the page?

I had a look at the Google Maps API, but I don't really understand how to implement it on my site.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bump for help.

I can't help you, but theres plenty of people who can.

Are you putting a map on your site showing where in the area where your organisation is?

For example for Halton Lea Shopping City near mine.


Edited at 19:30 Mon 29/06/09 (BST)

Just noticed this, and I tried to do something similar a year or so back, and while it never made it to web use, it did work in testing (that was from a simple postcode form field, but you sould be able to link to the SQL fields easily enough)

I used this tutorial : http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/geocoding-uk-postcodes-with-google-map-api/

As mentioned there, the problem lies in the Royal Mails "copyright" style agreement over postcodes.

Whether you can adapt that to show multiple addresses at the same time I am unsure.

Perhaps you would be better researching KML files..

I didn't know Royal Mail has any copyrights on postcodes :-S

That tutorial seems to be what im looking for.

What i was thinking of (if possible) was to have a url in the SQL database (Google or another map site) then stick the postcode on the end of the URL using PHP echo to act as a search query. I.e. maps.google.co.uk?q=POSTCODE

Not sure if this is possible though?

http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=WA72EU

Halton Lea again, would that work for you? but with your postcode