I'm working on a Google map API integration to automatically inventory "known sites and cities" - and I was wondering how some of you guys would like to see this go... How would you folks use a google maps resource - what would you like to see from it? I always love some good practice, and some good ideas will go a long way.
I had to update my "homepage" network map, which was a static country map - the problem with this is that node placement is absolutely miserable! The map tool is just kind of clunky, with recursion and performance issues so I basically have given up on it and I would like to rely on something more.. scalable.
Technical details aside, I've got it standing up, crippled, and on a couple of stilts on my production orion server. The code is portable enough to not really care what version of orion you run, as long as you can get an XML dump of your nodes.
The google geocache code only collects half of my sites and addresses that i have defined, and that's using a custom sql report to dump "Unique" addresses without duplication.
The best part about this is that the actual orion "resource" is just an iframe to some static html so it's super-portable.
