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Friday, March 5, 2010

Displaying Lotus Notes person document info on a Google Map

Using a simple unstyled view and then reading it into JavaScript as XML using JQuery and the Google Map API, we were able to show a couple of hundred users on a really nice google map. When you click on a marker, you see the image of the person along with biographical information, a send email link and even a get directions link.

There is even some smarts when the map loads for someone new to compute their longitude/latitude based on their address, write that information back into the Notes database using Ajax (again with JQuery), and then run an agent to update the person document with that information so it's speedier to display the next time.

Lotus Notes data shown on Google Maps