Introduction

May be some of you knows about service I launched more than one year now called who-s-web. Its server-side cluster algorithm is at the origin of a new service launched few weeks ago: Mapeed.

But this site has also an address form when you register with a great feature: you can check your address on a little google map before submitting it, you can even move marker if it’s not correct. This “widget” is something you need when you let someone enter a location like a user’s address or a place’s location for a real better user experience.

After having seeing this same kind of form on Google Local Business Center, I decided to make a Javascript component to bring this behavior with only a couple of lines of code and Mapeed.AddressChooser is born :).

Features

• Javascript framework-agnostic. You can use it as is or with any great frameworks like Prototype, JQuery …
• Mapping system independent. The current implementation is based on Google Map using a Google Map proxy object.
• Interactive map display location while you arex typing an address.
• Center map on user location (based on its IP) if mapping system allows it.
• Fully customizable.
• Fully documented with pdoc.
• Works on Safari, Firefox, IE 6/7, Chrome and Opera.
• ...

Download

This component is free, open-source and available on github here: http://github.com/mapeed/addresschooser.

You can also get a zip file or directly download Javascript file, checkout official website.

Enjoy!