Today we are going to load JSON data thats being served from our Ruby on Rails scaffold. For this lesson I'll just concentrate on reading from JSON and display it on the map. In another lesson we'll show how to setup the scaffold. Then we'll go over how to make the markers and client list clickable. For an example on what this will look like, visit http://www.ccexperts.com/dev/json-map.html or view the image below.
Every web designer has at one point or another been asked, "How can I get weather on my site?" The old answer was to have a giant ugly weather channel gadget. Something that looked very nasty and you couldn't un-brand it no matter what. Some used an iframe to display external data and have it appear to be on their site. Lastly you could always just have a link that says 'click here for weather'. My goal was to get weather data from an external source and be able to customize how it looks. Fortunately now there are some great resources out there. I'm going with one that is my favorite, something extremely easy to use and customize - Google's Weather API.
