The Autocomplete Map Maker

I'm certain you've seen at to the lowest degree i of the pop autocomplete maps that accept been doing the rounds over the final few months. These maps purpose Google search autocomplete to present what are the most pop search damage for locations around the world.

Well at nowadays yous tin practise your ain amongst the Map Channels Autocomplete Map Maker. I hope yous that yous are going to accept a lot of fun playing amongst this, equally yous tin larn inwards whatsoever search damage that yous desire together with around immediately persuasion the results on your ain map. You tin fifty-fifty embed your created maps inwards your ain website.

Using the Autocomplete Map Maker yous tin practise your ain map inwards a affair of seconds together with using whatever search damage yous want. The sorcerer allows yous to larn inwards whatsoever search damage (both suffixes together with prefixes) together with therefore automatically creates your map built on Google autocomplete suggestions.

So, for example, yous tin larn inwards 'Why is' equally your prefix together with 'so' equally your suffix together with yous volition larn your ain map of the world, displaying all the pop search entries for the countries inwards the the world - Why is America therefore violent?

There are or therefore rattling clever things going on amongst the Autocomplete Map Maker. The map automatically retrieves the autocomplete search results for your ain damage from Google search. It therefore adds labels to a Google Map showing the results. You tin choose to persuasion either the results for countries or for U.S. of A. states. You tin fifty-fifty purpose your ain KML of locations to customize the map to present the results alone for your ain locations (for instance here is a map I created using a kml of or therefore of America's cities).

The labels on the map are displayed using an enhanced version of the Google Maps label library. Map Channels has enhanced the library therefore that the labels don't overlap. Where 2 labels mightiness overlap on the map, i is removed together with is alone shown equally the user zooms in. This is a slap-up enhancement to the map label library together with I'm going to endeavour together with persuade Map Channels to free the code on Github.