[PLUG] Points on a map

[Ali Corbin]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 7:57 PM Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here's an interesting challenge. First, I am not a programmer, but I can
> sometimes piece stuff together and modify to make it work.
>
> I have seen these on other web pages and they seem like they should be
> simple enough. I have a document file with about 200 locations nationwide.
> Each location has s site number and an address and description of the
> location. What I would like to do is have a web page with a map I can zoom
> in on with a dot for each location. Clicking on the dot brings up a small
> box with the site number, name, and a link to the description. Clicking on
> the link brings up a new window with the paragraph describing the site
> details.
>
> Maybe there is some kind of service I can incorporate for this? It will be
> very low volume and out of my pocket, so Open Source or otherwise free is
> nice.
>
> I did something similar to this a few years back, using google's map api.

At the time it was a free service.  Now I believe they charge for it, but
give you a credit of so many visits per month.  Which makes it effectively
free for low volume sites.