Google Maps and Google Earth KML overlays

Posted by jmalasko on Oct 29, 2008 5:03 AM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Jake Miles
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In this two-part article series, to turn street addresses into their geographical coordinates for storage in the database, you will call the Google Geocoder Web service from PHP. You will then produce XML data from MySQL using stored procedures, and an XSLT stylesheet to transform the data into a KML overlay to view in Google Maps and Google Earth.

Learn how to develop an application for a real estate brokerage to display all available apartment listings as clickable Placemarks on Google Maps. To turn street addresses into their geographical coordinates for storage in the database, you will call the Google Geocoder Web service from PHP. You will then produce XML data from MySQL using stored procedures, and an XSLT stylesheet to transform the data into a KML overlay to view in Google Maps and Google Earth.

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