Tyler Ham’s Blog

I developed a nice little web page as an exercise in Google Maps and to help study for a Place Name Exam in one of my classes, GRG 301K. The test is over a set of locations. A map with numbers will be provided and each question will name a location and ask (multiple choice) which location on the map matches that name. My Place Name Exam - Google Map page is a tool to help study for the exam.

The locations are divided up into categories (as provided by the professor). Clicking on a category on the left will bring up markers on the map corresponding to the locations in the category. Clicking a marker will identify the location in an info window/balloon. Clicking a particular location within a category will center the map on the marker for that particular location.

At the time this is being written, I have not finished loading the data for ALL locations covered on the test. Locations that have not been loaded onto this page will not show up as markers on the map and cannot be located on the map by clicking on the location. Such locations still show up on the left but do not appear as a link. I'll try to add more locations soon (the test is on Thursday!).

I've been locating each place on Google Maps to get the latitude/longitude coordinates to load into my Place Name Exam - Google Map page. This act alone has been very helpful in learning where all these places are.

Disclaimer: I'm not responsible if you use this information to study for a test and something on my map is incorrect. No guarantees, warranties, etc. Use it at your own risk! Personally, I'm just using it to review what I learned from studying the atlas.

Internet Explorer 6 seems a little sluggish with the JavaScript. If you are using IE6, have some patience. Firefox 2 seems to work well. Comments about other browsers would be appreciated.

If you find this particular google map application helpful, please leave me a note below!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 12:58 am and is filed under ColdFusion, Google Maps, School. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.