So a client of mine has a business listings website. Each search result for a business already has a link on it for a Maplink, meaning you can locate the business on a map when you click on it. As of now, all the links for every business simply go to mapquest.com. I have a column space in the main table called maplink where all the info is listed and right now they are all NULL. The only way I can see it working so that when the user clicks on maplink, the correct location on the map is pulled up is for me to manually enter the proper URL on mapquest in order to display that map. The thing is, there are over 8 million listings and there is no way anyone can manually update all of that in under what, 2000 years. So how would I go about doing this? Does anyone know where I can find some info on doing this automatically or something?
Thanks,
Tirus
EDIT: I see that Mapquest has some business solutions and even a free search system for websites but I am not sure that it's what I need. I simply want a link on the busines listings website to bring up the right search parameters on the mapquest website. Is there a way to code something so that it takes the information (address, city, state, zipcode) for that business directly from the table I have setup with all the info and uses that to conduct the search?
Edited by Tirus, 02 July 2006 - 12:44 PM.
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