Almost a year ago I made my first Google Map for the redesign of the TWiFi site. I didn’t touch the API again until I finally started redesigning Tremonter a few months back. The idea for creating a neighborhood map for Tremont had been rattling around in my head since I first started the site, but I knew how tedious the work would be and so kept putting it off.
Now that the Tremont map is finally taking shape, I must admit that the tedium is still present, but is currently outweighed by the fact that the map looks so cool. I’d better be careful though, or I’ll start putting Google Maps on everything.
I still need to figure out the right javascript tweaks to make no markers appear until their respective boxes are checked in the legend, but otherwise the only thing left to do is cobble together the addresses, phone numbers, websites and coordinates for several hundred businesses in the few square miles that is Tremont, and plug the data into the xml file. Looking at it in that direction seems a bit daunting, so I’ll just take it one marker at a time.