Comments on: Plotting my tree with Google Maps

By: Dave Reeves

Dave Reeves — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:38:35 +0000

Just looking around to see if anyone else had done this, and I have only found you and I so far I plotted my ancestors too. How did you get it to work inside your blog? Do you host the blog on your own server?

By: Martin Tod

Martin Tod — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:43:01 +0000

Will,

Ah.. I hadn’t realised you’d done it that way. I couldn’t make it work inside a post so I ended up writing a template for the Ming map. I vaguely recall having to change the header as well.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:38:00 +0000

Thanks. I could see that working with a custom template Wordpress page, but would it work with the script inside a post?

The map shouldn’t work on the archive page anyway as the directory doesn’t match the one for which I registered my key. I’m wondering if I had simple permalinks enabled when I tried this originally.

By: Martin Tod

Martin Tod — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:29:57 +0000

I found this article on how GoogleMaps crashes IE helpful.

The trick is to put most of the javascript at the absolute end of the page.

Martin

By: Will

Will — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:44:27 +0000

Some symbols? I think I fixed it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:43:35 +0000

OK my previous post should have had some , but wordpress removed them.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:40:02 +0000

It is. However, to combat that I moved code to an external .js file as advised here. I got no errors but an empty div.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:38:09 +0000

I believe that WordPress is inserting
in the code where you have new lines.