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“…Enable users to create and manage their own ‘groups’. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. They do so by posting the usual node types: blog, story, page, etc. A block is shown on the group home page which facilitates these posts. The block also provides summary information about the group…”
Views 2, CCK 2, and Organic Groups Release Candidates now available for Drupal 6!

API - Put Your Content Where Your Customers Are

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:40:28 +0000

“..An API can unlock new distribution channels for your content and services. But creating an API is only the first step. Achieving long-term success requires management tools, security controls, built-in scalability, and community support…”

http://www.mashery.com/solution/

Ruby on Rails - Resources

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:25:54 +0000

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/1590598415

RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails
http://railsspace.com/

Building a Social Network Site in Rails By Jim Neath
http://jimneath.org/2008/04/25/building-a-social-network-site-in-rails/

Google Maps Project - Resources

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:31:33 +0000

These resources could be closer links to what i need to do:

This example shows how to geocode an array of addresses in such a way that avoids going over the max QPS and getting a 620 error.
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/delayed.html

With some help from this resource for parsing xml and overlay html.

So combining the above examples allows me to geocode an array of address from an xml output without hitting the 620 error, and also adding some other functionality like overlayhtml and customer markers which is all I need for my project.

Now, what I need to export the xml from a customer web app form.

Here comes the tests…

GoogleMaps Project - Successful sites

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:55:16 +0000

Found these from http://maps.google.com/help/maps/casestudies/

Trulia - great site for realestate
Kayak

I’ve found some examples here
and in regards to xml feeds here
Here’s an example someone did at these forums using multiple address which “…The geocode component adds a Geolocate form to the Property Details Form that scrapes the address and geocodes it returning the lat & lon or allows the user to position a marker on a google map to return the lat lon and an address for the property….”

http://econym.googlepages.com/geomulti.htm

Found a thread here where “…Alternatively and probably
better, you could use a server-side application to loop through the
file, geocode each address, and then store it back in your XML file so
that you can use AJAX to just call the XML, parse out the lat/lng
values, and place the marker….” : Contact

GoogleMaps Project

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:08:57 +0000

Here’s my first go with a GoogleMaps project. What i’m trying to do is find a way to create lat/long coords from an xml list of address’. Google provides a geocoder that only parses address’ every 2 seconds (max QPS and getting a 620 error) , so you can run into problems trying to parse through a list of 100s of xml address’.

First some resources:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/geoxml-rss.html

With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/

here is the flickr api link…
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=322338@N20&format=rss_200&georss=1

Googlemaps for Flash API
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/intro.html
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-samples-flash/
http://www.insideria.com/2008/05/google-releases-as3-maps-api.html

One of the demos
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/demogallery.html

yahoo map API - Yahoo maps have built in geocode functionality which converts your address to long/lat coords where as Google doesn’t.
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

Other info
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/08/10/google-maps.html

Outting putting different ways to XML
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=65622&topic=11364

Perl geocoder
http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/US.pm

Geocoder:US
http://geocoder.us/

To use geocoder - here’s the license
http://geocoder.us/user/signup

Geocoder parsing
http://geocoder.us/help/#parsing

Mapping hacks
http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/

More resources
http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm