Sunday, September 02, 2007

Best of Citysearch Mashup



Best of Citysearch + Google Maps: This mashup of citysearch.com and Google Maps will help you find the best restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping and services in major US cities as voted on Citysearch.com.
I have implemented the GDirections Google Maps API, which will help you to get directions to the locations on the same map. The RSS feeds from citysearch.com has location address and descriptions in the same RSS tag, so I had to parse the address in a non standard way to extract just the location address from the feed and plot it on the map, seem to be working fine now, hopefully citysearch.com will not change the RSS formating, if so I may have to modify my parsing script.

I have also created "Best of Citysearch" Mapplet for those interested: "http://mapmash.googlepages.com/citysearch_mapplet.xml"
(To add this mapplet, go to this link, login and select "Add it to Maps")

5 Comments:

At 5:05 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heyy.. Jayanth here.. Loved this mapmash a lot.. I'm a core Php developer and have absolutely no knowledge of Ajax.. Would love it if you could help me in building a similar such page for Bangalore.. All my data stored in the Database..

email me : jayanth [at] amonks [dot] in

 
At 9:45 AM , Blogger Unknown said...

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At 9:46 AM , Blogger Unknown said...

doing a similar project, can you please help me at the dropdown list stage. thx

attardmarkanthony@gmail.com

 
At 10:15 PM , Blogger Madhu said...

hi... planning to create a similar map to my place ...ur mapmash is too gud.. can u help me to build it....????

 
At 10:15 PM , Blogger Madhu said...

My ID ilakss@gmail.com

 

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