using Google Maps API on blogs.sun.com
To plot GPS data on google maps like in my previous entry, I used this great piece of software.
SportTracks FTPPlugin
The configiration dialog is:
SportTracks FTPPlugin
The configiration dialog is:
- Roller Weblogger, which runs blogs.sun.com, apparently doesn't accept ftp upload. So, don't bother setting ftp dir/username.
- Google Maps API key: I think I could have asked our blogs.sun.com administrator to get blogs.sun.com wide key. Instead, I created my personal key. Below is the response from http://code.google.com/apis/maps
Thank you for signing up for a Google Maps API key!
Your key is:
JUNKJUNKlToFQeUTOysX7DNx0_kl4hSxWa86HAc71oxYJfiYpUgzDrZrbBR6oDBJ8KNrUiDx5iR2Pnu123456w
This key is good for all URLs in this directory:
http://blogs.sun.com/LetTheSunShineIn/resource/
Here is an example web page to get you started on your way to mapping glory:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Google Maps JavaScript API Example</title>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=JUNKJUNKlToFQeUTOysX7DNx0_kl4hSxWa86HAc71oxYJfiYpUgzDrZrbBR6oDBJ8KNrUiDx5iR2Pnu123456w"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function load() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);
}
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body onload="load()" onunload="GUnload()">
<div id="map" style="width: 500px; height: 300px"></div>
</body>
</html>Check out the API documentation for more information.
