Topic: Maps integration

[hackalive]

Hello everyone,
Now there are two main maps services 1) Google Maps and 2) Microsoft's Bing Maps
Both come with SDKs and developer site integration compatibility.

So here is my question, on a site I am building I want maps to be a part. As a part of this their is a field which data can be entered, so I need some source code that can check if the data entered is an address of business location a map can be resourced for. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to do it, and would appreciate even solutions that are specific to only one of the map services.

Many thanks in advance.

[hackalive]

any ideas?

[Kris]

Have you read any of the documentation for either of the APIs?

[hackalive]

yes, but have no idea if this is possible or anyone has done it, so that it would check if a map can be found and display it and if not display nothing, no map suggestions or 'blank' maps

[neil.johnson]

You require the AJAX Search API from google to integrate with the maps API. Take a look at the following.
http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/mapsearch/index.html