Event mapping
After a little time away from programming and active web development, I thought I’d get back into things by giving myself a little project to create a Google maps and Upcoming mashup.
At the moment it’s fairly basic as I’ve only spent a few hours working on it, but seems to be working well. I’ve deliberately tried to keep the number of options and fields down to a minimum (I know there are far more options and functions I could add).
Enter some search text in the ‘What?’ field, then a location in the ‘Where?’, finally select ‘When?’. All the events matching your search (within a 50mile radius of the location) will be shown on the map. Click on the marker to get more info about the event.
Neither the ‘what?’ or ‘where?’ field are required, either or both may be left blank. If the ‘what?’ is omitted then all events in the area are shown and if the ‘where?’ is omitted then the centre of the current view of the map is used.
All the events are from Upcoming and you can use their interface to add your own event, to then appear on the map.
For the technically minded, the site uses the Google Maps API (including for geocoding the location) and the Upcoming API.
If you know of any other feeds I could use for adding events to the map, then please let me know so I can try adding them.
I’d also be grateful for any feedback, problems or suggestions – just leave a comment below.
