Through out the past couple of weeks, I have been working endlessly on implementing the Google Maps API in to a xhtml strict website. At the beginning of the project, I decided that I wanted the application to be fully customizable via an XML file. Everything from the icons, locations & info windows needed to be accessed and modified from one central location.

When setting up the Google Maps API, it is very important to pay attention to the version. I wasted a good day trying to follow XML.com’s “Hacking Google Map’s” tutorial, only to realize that their method of using marker.openInfoWindowXslt to access an xsl file was no longer supported.

The main advice that I can give for anyone that wants to add Google Maps to their site is to use the following two pages as a resource because they are the best :

* Google’s Google Maps Version 2 API Documentation
* www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/