Hey Dana,<br>
<br>
I was working on something similar. My first effort was to create a
Geocoder Proxy Webserivce w/ faceplate (so you can enter just an
address and get the lat/long ajax-style):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://209.82.15.217/GeoProxy/">http://209.82.15.217/GeoProxy/</a><br>
<br>
That address is my laptop and may be unavailable at times... It was written in .NET but a PHP port is fairly easy I think.<br>
<br>
I'd actually prefer to return JSON [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON</a>]
which is easier for the client to consume and is lighter on the
bandwidth... I may add a parameter to indicate a preference for JSON
instead of XML. I'll probably use XSLT to transform XML > JSON but
unfortunately I won't be able to retain date and number types without
referring to a schema (all the fields will be strings or arrays of
strings).<br>
<br>
The reason for the proxy is that most web browsers have security issues
when using the XmlHttpRequest object to retrieve data from another
domain (ie. <a href="http://geocoder.ca">geocoder.ca</a> or <a href="http://geocoder.us">geocoder.us</a>). Of course the server could do
all that work but it's more overhead for it and more hurry-up-and-wait
for the clients...<br>
<br>
Anyway, I'm working towards a similar goal for several projects so I'm
doing my best to create a platform that will make it easy to embed this
functionality into a page. I'll be using HTC's and XBL (there is a cool
XBL wrapper for IE's HTC - see <a href="http://dean.edwards.name/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/moz-behaviors/</a> )<br>
<br>
Rein<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dana Spiegel</b> <<a href="mailto:dana@nycwireless.net">dana@nycwireless.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is a great map. perhaps we can work towards something like this in
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