I would like to build an interface that would allow an individual to
input data that will upload to the map and change the color of the
icons dependent upon the data uploaded.  Are there any examples of
anything like this?

Thanks,

Hank

Masters of maps,

Tonight we released a new version of Yahoo! Maps with new APIs for
developers. With this release you have the ability to create and
manipulate Flash and AJAX maps, embed maps on your own Web site,
overlay new data sources including traffic and local search, and use
geocoding to convert addresses into lat/long pairs.

You can find more details in the developer blog post here:

   http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2005/11/announcing_new.html

Feel free to use this group to ask questions and share what you've
come up with. We can't wait to see what you're working on!

Jeffrey

We now support the conversion of addresses into lat/long pairs.
Documentation here:

   http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

Jeffrey

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, Vince Maniago <uvince@y...> wrote:
>
> Yahoo! Maps let's you use lat/lon or addresses, it's your choice!
>
> Check out the item sub-elements in the documentation:
>
> ymaps:Address string The street address of the location. Anything
Yahoo! Maps is able to recognize as a valid address can be used here.
> ymaps:CityState string The city and state/province of the location.
> ymaps:Zip integer or <integer>-<integer> The five-digit ZIP code, or
the five-digit code plus four-digit extension of the location.
> ymaps:Country string: default us The two-letter country code of the
location. ca and us are currently supported.
> geo:lat floating-point number The latitude of the location. If
geo:lat and geo:long are not specified, ymaps:Address,
ymaps:CityState, ymaps:Zip and ymaps:Country are all required.
> geo:long floating-point number The longitude of the location.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: preferredlogistics <bbement@g...>
> To: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:58:26 AM
> Subject: [yws-maps] i have lat/lon data, how to turn to hard address?
>
> my application gives me a lat/lon location, but it seems i will need
> to turn this into a hard address in order to use yahoo maps.  is their
> any solution to this?  in searching other threads it appears yahoo
> maps doesnt support the translating of the lat/lon to a hard
> address....perhaps there is some 3rd party product that can accomplish
> this on my server?
>
> thanks in advance, bart
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
>
>
>  Visit your group "yws-maps" on the web.
>
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>

We bow down before you, oh great and mighty wizard!  How can we ever
thank you for your wonderful gifts!  We will endeavor to create items
of great beauty that will honor your gifts.  And we will joyfully
sing out across the lands,"Yahoo!"


--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "jeffreymcmanus"
<jeffreymcmanus@y...> wrote:
>
> Masters of maps,
>
> Tonight we released a new version of Yahoo! Maps with new APIs for
> developers. With this release you have the ability to create and
> manipulate Flash and AJAX maps, embed maps on your own Web site,
> overlay new data sources including traffic and local search, and use
> geocoding to convert addresses into lat/long pairs.
>
> You can find more details in the developer blog post here:
>
>
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2005/11/announcing_new.html
>
> Feel free to use this group to ask questions and share what you've
> come up with. We can't wait to see what you're working on!
>
> Jeffrey
>

Has this changed with the new release?

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Theurer" <dtheurer@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi Ronald,
>
> Yahoo! Maps does not allow you to specify if you want the fastest or the
> shortest. It returns you the route that is assumed to be the most
optimal.
>
> In the current version, the API does not support routes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Theurer (toy-er)
> Technical Evangelist
> Yahoo! Developer Network
> mailto:dan@y...

I'm a complete newbie to the Yahoo! system and am looking for a little
more explanation or samples to supplement what is provided in the
Simple API Reference Manual online.  Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Gina

I'm a complete newbie to the Yahoo! system and am looking for a little
more explanation or samples to supplement what is provided in the
Simple API Reference Manual online.  Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Gina

Is there any way to draw a polyline using the Flash API?  I can't seem to find
the word polyline in the API nor in this message board.  I simply want to plot
the driving directions line, but I feed the geopoints the line should follow.

Aaron

Hi !

I'm curently testing the API to get the geocode for some locations in
canada. All I'm able to get is "unable to parse location". Can anyone
send me and exemple of a working geocode query for canada, including
postal code ?

Hello,

In testing the GeoRSS feed to the Yahoo Maps last week HTML code in the
<description>...</description> node of the <item> element was rendered
properly, however, today while testing, the HTML in the description
field is NOT rendered -- instead it is displayed, (cut and paste the
URL below into your browser):

http://api.maps.yahoo.com/Maps/V1/annotatedMaps?
appid=YahooDemo&xmlsrc=http://www.rentboard.ca/search/map_yahoo_georss.a
spx?locid=207

When you click on a map marker the HTML code sent in the description
field is displayed rather than rendered.

Question: Can the <description> node contain HTML codes?  Currently it
appears that it cannot.

I'm having the same problem.

Formatting Worked yesterday - http://ridemaps.com/test/clubs.htm

Traffic cams are gone - http://ridemaps.com/test/





--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "places4rent" <bdaviduck@r...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In testing the GeoRSS feed to the Yahoo Maps last week HTML code in
the
> <description>...</description> node of the <item> element was
rendered
> properly, however, today while testing, the HTML in the description
> field is NOT rendered -- instead it is displayed, (cut and paste
the
> URL below into your browser):
>
> http://api.maps.yahoo.com/Maps/V1/annotatedMaps?
>
appid=YahooDemo&xmlsrc=http://www.rentboard.ca/search/map_yahoo_georss
.a
> spx?locid=207
>
> When you click on a map marker the HTML code sent in the
description
> field is displayed rather than rendered.
>
> Question: Can the <description> node contain HTML codes?  Currently
it
> appears that it cannot.
>

Gina,

The easiest way to find samples is to find a map similiar to what you
want to create.  Then look at how it was done.

For example, if you were looking at my Columbia Bicycle mashup, in
the Address bar at the top of your browser would be:

http://api.maps.yahoo.com/Maps/V1/annotatedMaps?appid=breakaway2005-
columbia&xmlsrc=http://www.ms150.info/columbia/c_rs_yahoo.xml

In order to view the xml code, just delete the beginning of that link
up to the second http. You'll end up with
http://www.ms150.info/columbia/c_rs_yahoo.xml and you'll see how I
did it.

Elena



--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "mapsbygina" <mapsbygina@y...> wrote:
>
> I'm a complete newbie to the Yahoo! system and am looking for a
little
> more explanation or samples to supplement what is provided in the
> Simple API Reference Manual online.  Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Gina
>

I'm completely new at the Yahoo! Maps services.  I'm trying to use the
AJAX API to show a map of regional offices.  I can get the map to zoom
in and show the SmartWindow when the marker is clicked, but I want it
to zoom back out when the SmartWindow is closed.  Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Scott Abbott

Jeff:
Does the new maps API still generate maps on the client-side?

Cheers,
Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...>

Stop sending e-mail to this site please

--- Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...> wrote:

> Jeff:
> Does the new maps API still generate maps on the
> client-side?
>
> Cheers,
> Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...>
>
>




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emails to be sent.

--- Quincy Braithwaite <qxfactor@...> wrote:

> Stop sending e-mail to this site please
>
> --- Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...> wrote:
>
> > Jeff:
> > Does the new maps API still generate maps on the
> > client-side?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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I'm fairly sure thats a server-side thing...

J

--- Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...> wrote:

> Jeff:
> Does the new maps API still generate maps on the
> client-side?
>
> Cheers,
> Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@...>




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I tested the Flash API and notice it load the whole Y!map component
into final SWF file, and the mini size is 85k bytes or so. I wonder if
Yahoo dev team could give us some flexible options such as dividing
the whole component into some more pieces, that we could reduce the
final size and improve end-user's experience. You know, comparing to
load only map images in HTML Y!map, to load a Yahoo!map in Flash
visitors have to load additional 85k first.

Hey all,
         I have been playing with the Yahoo Maps Api and I have noticed
that in the CustomPOIMarker API docs it states that the
CustomPOIMarker class , constructor takes in 5 params

CustomPOIMarker (index, title, description, markerColor, strokeColor)

So I took the second example of the yahoo website ( "Placing a Marker
on a Yahoo! Map using ActionScript and Flash " )

And replaced the code

var myMarker = {index:'Y!', title:'Yahoo! Inc.',
description:'Corporate HQ', markerColor:0x990099, strokeColor:0xFFFF00};

with

var myMarker:CustomPOIMarker=new CustomPOIMarker('Y!','Yahoo!
Inc.','Corporate HQ',0x990099,"0xFFFF00");

but this piece of code does not work .So after looking at the class
code I found that the constructor takes no params.

public function CustomPOIMarker();

So I tried doing
var myMarker:CustomPOIMarker=new CustomPOIMarker();
myMarker.index="Y!";
myMarker.title="Yahoo!";
myMarker.description="Corporate HQ";

but then ran into the issue that strokeColor and markerColor are
private while the rest are public ??

Also in the api it mentions that strokeColor is string but in the
intrinsic  class its defined

private var strokeColor:Number;

So how would I go about setting these properites or changing them ??

cheers :)
Firdosh

Does anyone have a CustomSWFMarker example ??. I created a custom swf
and it loads up fine but I am not sure I am adding it as a Marker properly

  var address:String = "701 First Ave., Sunnyvale, CA";
  var test:CustomSWFMarker=new CustomSWFMarker("YahooMapMarker.swf");
  test.callCustomMethod("setIndex",["Testing"]);

How do I pass in my test instance to the method ?? The last param is a
data object.

myMap.addMarkerByAddress(CustomSWFMarker, address, );

Thanks
cheers :)
firdosh

I am trying to basically dispatch an event whenever a marker is clicked.

class MyMarker extends CustomPOIMarker {

public function onPress():Void {
	 super.onPress();
	 trace("here");
	 dispatchEvent({type:"click", target:this});
}

it does not trace here out. CustomPOIMarker extends Marker which
extends Movieclip so it should trace something there.


Another weird thing is I tried overriding some methods
public function onContainerMouseDown(){

    trace("here");
}

does not trace anything in here either or even when I tried

    private function onCloseButtonPress()

although If I do
var myMarker:MyMarker=new MyMarker();
myMarker.onPress=function(){
trace("here");
}

this works but then the whole animation goes away since its overriding
the function. So why wont it let me do it in my MyMarker class??

thanks
firdosh

I cannot get any markers on my maps.  Below is my code.

index.asp:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/inc/YMap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/inc/YData.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
	 function StartYMap() {
		 var YMapObj = new YMap(document.getElementById('mapContainer'));
		 YMapObj.addZoomLong();
		 YMapObj.addPanControl();

		 var myPoint = new YGeoPoint(40.265419, -76.71);
		 YMapObj.drawZoomAndCenter(myPoint, 2);
		 YLoadMapData(YMapObj, YMapJSONObj);
	 }
	 window.onload = StartYMap;
</script>

YMaps.js:
/*******************************************************************************
  * File: YMap.js
  *
  * Description: Contains functions to facilitate map creation using the
  * Yahoo! Maps API.
  ******************************************************************************/

var markersArray = new Object();

function YLoadMapData(map, data) {
	 markersArray['map'] = map;

	 for(var idx = 0; idx < data.markers.marker.length; idx++) {
			 var mapPoint = new YGeoPoint
						   (parseFloat(data.markers.marker[idx].lat),
						    parseFloat(data.markers.marker[idx].lon));

			 var plotPoint = createYMarker(mapPoint, data.markers.marker[idx], idx);
			 map.addOverlay(plotPoint);
	 }
}

function createYMarker(point, data, idx) {
	 var myIcon = new YImage();
	 myIcon.src = 'http://www.zluth.org/images/rd14x15_1_tl.gif';
	 myIcon.size = new YSize(14, 15);
	 myIcon.offsetSmartWindow = new YCoordPoint(0,0);

	 var marker = new YMarker(point, 'id'+idx, myIcon);

	 var html_str = "<div style='width: 150px; max-width: 150px; margin: 0
3px 2px 3px;'>"
				  + "<b>" + data.name + "</b><br/>"
				  + data.address + "<br/>"
				  + data.city_state + "<br/>"
				  + data.phone + "<br/>"
				  + data.description + "</div>";

	 //var menuObj = document.getElementById("ymap_links");
	 //menuObj.innerHTML += '<a href="javascript:focusOnMarker(\'' +
data.name + '\')">'
					   //+ data.name + '</a><br/>';

	 markersArray[data.name] = new Object();
	 markersArray[data.name]['html'] = html_str;
	 markersArray[data.name]['marker'] = marker;

	 YEvent.Capture(marker, EventsList.MouseClick, function() {
marker.openSmartWindow(html_str) });
	 return marker;
}

function focusOnMarker(name) {
	 var marker = markersArray[name]['marker'];
	 marker.openSmartWindow(markersArray[name]['html']);
}

YData.js:
var YMapJSONObj = {
	 "markers":
	 {
		 "marker":
		 [
			 {
				 "lon":"-76.71",
				 "lat":"40.265419",
				 "name":"Zion Lutheran Church",
				 "address":"100 West Main St.",
				 "city_state":"Hummelstown, PA",
				 "phone":"717.566.2589",
				 "description":"Zion Luther Church Map"
			 },
		 ]
	 }
}

Are driving directions and routing available under the AJAx and/or
Flash Beta API's?

Thanks.
-Brent

Thanks for fixing this so fast!  Its such a relief to have it back!




--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "ridemaps" <yahoogroups@r...> wrote:
>
> I'm having the same problem.
>
> Formatting Worked yesterday - http://ridemaps.com/test/clubs.htm
>
> Traffic cams are gone - http://ridemaps.com/test/
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "places4rent" <bdaviduck@r...>
wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > In testing the GeoRSS feed to the Yahoo Maps last week HTML code
in
> the
> > <description>...</description> node of the <item> element was
> rendered
> > properly, however, today while testing, the HTML in the
description
> > field is NOT rendered -- instead it is displayed, (cut and paste
> the
> > URL below into your browser):
> >
> > http://api.maps.yahoo.com/Maps/V1/annotatedMaps?
> >
>
appid=YahooDemo&xmlsrc=http://www.rentboard.ca/search/map_yahoo_georss
> .a
> > spx?locid=207
> >
> > When you click on a map marker the HTML code sent in the
> description
> > field is displayed rather than rendered.
> >
> > Question: Can the <description> node contain HTML codes?
Currently
> it
> > appears that it cannot.
> >
>

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Roller" <aroller@m...> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to draw a polyline using the Flash API?  I can't
seem to find the word polyline in the API nor in this message board.
I simply want to plot the driving directions line, but I feed the
geopoints the line should follow.
>
> Aaron

Polylines is not yet a supported feature of the Flash API. Look for it
in a future release.

Jason

We'll be releasing a minor bug fix update to the Yahoo! Maps AS-Flash
API early next week. If you've had problems using setCenterByAddress
and setZoomLevel together, that problem will be fixed.

Jason

Friends,

I am trying to put a mySQL database SELECT to plot user profile
information in a Yahoo Map


My code zooms in at the proper coordinates but the marker doesn't show
up at all.

I tried the var marker1 with my PHP code which didn't work.. I then
commented it out and pasted the original marker1 code which still
doesn't work..

wtf is this noob doing wrong?

<script type="text/javascript">
// Create and display Map object at the address and with zoom level 3
// Include your application ID.
var map = new Map("mapContainer", "gabbrgeocode", "<?php echo
$rowGeocode[address1]; ?>, <?php echo $rowGeocode[city]; ?>, <?php
echo $rowGeocode[state]; ?>", 3);

// Make the map draggable
map.addTool( new PanTool(), true );

// Create a Navigator Widget object
navWidget = new NavigatorWidget();

// Add the Navigator Widget to the map and display it
map.addWidget(navWidget);

// Create a POI marker object

marker1 = new CustomPOIMarker( 'HOME', 'Simple Map  Example', 'South
Austin, Texas Rocks!', '0xFF0000',     '0xFFFFFF' );
//marker1 = new CustomPOIMarker( '<?php echo $rowGeocode[username];
?>', '<?php echo "<br>".$rowGeocode[byline]; ?>', '<?php echo
$rowGeocode[address1]." ".$rowGeocode[city]." ".$rowGeocode[state];
?>', '0xFF0000',     '0xFFFFFF' );

// Add the POI marker to the map and display it
map.addMarkerByAddress( marker1, "511 E Mary St, Austin, TX");
</script>


A little help?

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "dhanoad" <dhanoad@y...> wrote:
> A little help?

It would be more helpful if you posted the "view source" version after
the PHP code has run so we can see what these variables are expanding
into and what the final Javascript looks like.  As far as I can tell
you have it right, but without the final Javascript it is hard to say.

You may also want to read through:

     http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/35-GeoCool!.html

where I go through some of this same stuff.

-Rasmus

Looking for some code that will help me plot several points in a city
based on locations I have in an Excel spreadsheet (DB). Is there a way
to drop some code into Excel or on an html page to retreive all the
lats and longs for each location by looping something or do you have a
better suggetion?
Thanks a ton!