Trying to find a mapping service that will allow me to store and show multiple addresses at a time. Doing some house searching and would just make it much easier to have 2 or 3 maps of areas in Raleigh rather than mapping out 30+ houses individually. Any ideas? Didn't notice the ability on MapQuest, Yahoo, Google, and MSN.

8/19/2005 12:43:43 AM

google maps api will let you do something like that, although I dunno how much programming you'd wanna do...
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

[Edited on August 19, 2005 at 12:57 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2005 12:57:06 PM

Google Earth would be perfect for you...used to be Keyhole, but it was bought out

It lets you do multiple locations on the same map, and even use satellite images instead of maps

http://earth.google.com/

8/19/2005 1:23:22 PM

we go live on monday, i'm finishing testing and making the marketing materials now. i'll let you know when it's up. we have to set up an account for you, but it only takes one phone call and an email address.




[Edited on August 19, 2005 at 2:41 PM. Reason : not the best pic, but you get the idea, it does exactly what you want]

8/19/2005 2:34:45 PM

^^--even better. dunno why i didn't think of that...everyone in my office is crazy about google earth right now.

[Edited on August 19, 2005 at 2:35 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2005 2:35:04 PM

yeah, i've been using google earth for purposes such as this

8/19/2005 4:24:09 PM

drtaylor wins.

8/21/2005 11:58:02 PM

You know what would be awesome, if you could make it plot the easiest directions to make the entire circuit of locations, given a specific starting point and stopping point, to prevent backtracking and save the most on gas. (Google or something might already do this, it was just something off the top of my head).

8/22/2005 11:02:43 AM

^-- mm....travelling salesman problem.

there's software out there that will do it on the web. i don't know of any free ones, but if they don't exist now, they will in a month or two.

8/22/2005 10:49:58 PM