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<div>That sounds good, but obviously we can't use <a href="http://ning.com">ning.com</a> if it doesn't do UK postcodes. I'm very keen to support/advertise Google maps <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/">(http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
</a>), because of their whole business practice (have you *seen* their office? ;) ), involvement in Open Source (Summer of Code, porting Google Earth to Linux, Wine, etc.) but that's just a personal preference - what do you think to that? Also, the map is easily zoomable, scrollable and you can navigate around it like lightning compared with any other map I've used online.
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<div>If you look at the source on <a href="http://map.ubuntu-be.org/fr/index.php">http://map.ubuntu-be.org/fr/index.php</a>, each new point on the map is a block of javascript:</div>
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<div>var point = new GLatLng(50.6627,5.5239);<br>var marker = createSupporterMarker(point, 'Emmanuel, <a href="http://lilit.be">lilit.be</a>, utilisateur exp&eacute;riment&eacute;<br />rue Monfort<br />4430 Ans<br />Seulement des packs d\'installation grav&eacute;s en stock<br />Démonstration, installation possible<br />Volontaire individuel<br /><a href="
contact.php?id=11">Me contacter</a> ');<br>map.addOverlay(marker);</div>
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<div>So if you could write some PHP that would take data from an "add my location to the map" form and actually stuff it into a PHP include file in the format above and save the include file, that'd be amazing!
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<div>Before we can sign up for an API key for Google maps, we need a domain name. Perhaps you could sign up temporarily for one on your own domain to play with it for now, if you so wish. I'll start a separate thread on whether or not we should have a separate site - I and John Levin have mentioned a few pros and cons in private and it needs airing to the whole community first!
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<div>Steve :)</div></div>