Following on from a previous article I wrote about (Google maps panning the next step in my Google mapping project is to be able to add markers to a Google map dynamically.

This article deals with how to translate a location into a latitude and longitude using Google, and how to send and add markers from a database into a Google maps via a remote service, using AJAX and JSON.

There is a full example of the finished application here: Demo of dynamically adding markers to Google maps

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I've been using the JQuery post() and get() functions for a while now, and thanks to decent Blog entries from other community members I've got my head around the principles of seamless AJAX http requests and response handling.

This article examines a way of creating a polling AJAX http request. This is a request that will run every N seconds based on a value. It will hit a remote service and return a result, and display that result on screen.

View a full demo of an AJAX polling request here.

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Most of us are familiar with the AJAX post() and getJSON() methods of remotely calling and passing around data, I use them with abundance when building applications. One thing I had not considered until recently is that all my AJAX Http requests are usually internal to that application, which also means they are on the same server and domain.

I recently jumped into a project where the application spanned 24 domains, and had been developed to use a core component library to help code re use. The problem with this arose when you are on one domain (www.domain1.com) and you want to make a request to a different domain (www.domain2.com). You encounter something called the 'same-Origin' policy.

This article deals with how to create a proxy to handle cross site AJAX http Requests.

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