Google maps and overlays based on street addresses

[sauki]

Hi everyone!
I'm a newbie here, so please be gentle with me.

I've got a Google map embedded on a page that loads your IP and gets your location. So far so good.

What I'm trying to do (and it all sounds like Greek to me) is how to overlay markers based on street addresses I have a on a db with Classic ASP. Google maps shows some pretty good examples of how to do this with the lat & lng variables, but how do I get them when all I have is the street address.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!!

Manuel

[Adrian]

You will need to "Geo-code" the street addresses in to Lats and Longs - Google has an API to do this. I think that it allows you to do 15,000 look-ups per day for free. see - http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

Finally - search for the word "geocoding" on this page and you will find some examples:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/docume ... index.html

All the best, please let me know if I can assist further.

[sauki]

Thanks a lot Adrian. Although I'm still struggling with some of the concepts, that really did help. Thanks again!

[Adrian]

You're welcome.

Thanks for getting back to us, and please let me know if I can assist further.

[kayanat]

How do I use google maps so my friends can all add their locations on the map? Some forums have google maps so everyone can add where they live on the map? How do I use this? or sign up for it? Plz help me.