Cartographer

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.