So many decisions needed to be made when I was first offered a position with CRT. The most notable and important was how close is there a Dunkin Donutsto the Realtor Building. That was the make or break question, and I needed to act on it stat.
Well, luckily, Google and Yahoo could come to the rescue. Using Google Maps API and Yahoo Local API I was able to search for every location, and map it accordingly. Below is a working example of what was created.
These same techniques can be used on your own website for creating utilities to map listing data in relation to local businesses and other points of interest. Thus providing your web users with much more robust and dynamic content.
If you are interested, sample code for creating this utility can be downloaded here.
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