{"id":7609,"date":"2009-03-27T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2009-03-27T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T21:24:40","slug":"building-customized-google-maps-and-engenu-folder-structures-from-lists-of-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7609\/building-customized-google-maps-and-engenu-folder-structures-from-lists-of-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Building customized Google Maps and engenu folder structures from lists of addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have very alpha software that makes a KML file that Google Maps will eat to make something like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=113901502857688870975.0004661ce8c0a5d5b2c95&amp;ll=33.341715,-112.047844&amp;spn=0.114726,0.164795&amp;z=12&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=113901502857688870975.0004661ce8c0a5d5b2c95&amp;ll=33.341715,-112.047844&amp;spn=0.114726,0.164795&amp;z=12&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kinda-sorta like ZeeMaps, except I get a true Google Maps map, which I can then customize and embed.<\/p>\n<p>I start with a list of addresses, which I can type if I absolutely have to.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more: I&#8217;m going to build in the ability to create an engenu folder structure from the list of addresses, so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/West_Valley_Rental_Home_Search\/\" target=\"_blank\">a site like this<\/a> essentially builds itself.<\/p>\n<p>For that kind of engenu site, I&#8217;ll cut my time from 40 minutes to 20 minutes, on the order of two minutes a page for brand new, original, knock-your-socks-off content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have very alpha software that makes a KML file that Google Maps will eat to make something like this: View Larger Map It&#8217;s kinda-sorta like ZeeMaps, except I get a true Google Maps map, which I can then customize and embed. I start with a list of addresses, which I can type if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7611,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7611\/the-mapmakers-dilemma-what-the-hell-are-you-doing-with-your-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":7609,"position":0},"title":"The mapmaker&#8217;s dilemma: What the hell are you doing with your time?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"That's a screen shot of the user interface of the beta version of the mapping software I talked about on Friday. 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