I know that you can put a marker on a long/lat coordinate, but I am having a hard time finding where/how you can place a marker on a specific street address. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I am using V3 of the API and JQuery.
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Right, basically query the maps API by address through a call to Geocoder. It should return to you a LAT/LNG which then you can use to create a marker.
function mygeocoder(addr){
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
if (geocoder) {
geocoder.geocode({ 'address': addr }, function (results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
console.log("LAT: ", results[0].geometry.location.lat());
console.log("LNG: ", results[0].geometry.location.lng());
}
else {
console.log("Geocoding failed: " + status);
}
});
}
}
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You will need to run a geocoding query.
View this source for details: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-simple.html
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@James has pointed out how to run a geocoding request, but you can take advantage of a jQuery plugin like landcarte to make it shorter and clearer like that:
var map = $("#map").geoMap();
map.search("Copenhagen", function(data) {
if (data.location) map.add("marker", data.location);
});
