Google Maps Based Site

[pinstrypes]

I would like to build a site that is based on google maps. See links below for examples. I have a custom google earth layer, so content is not the issue. The problem is I am a total newcomer the site building. I have done some stuff on Weebly.com and that's it.

 

I can figure this out once I know what to research, just need pointed in the right direction. Is this a particular type of site? (flash, html5). Are there templates that will work on a Wix.com or Weebly.com to do something like this?

 

http://sna.pr/

http://trendsmap.com/

http://www.culinaryculture.com/map

 

If this has been addressed in this forum already, my bad, a quick forum search didn't turn up results.

[falkencreative]

I imagine that they are using the Google Maps API to access Google's data: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

 

You're looking at a lot of programming to get this working (I'd imagine, at least) so it's probably something that would have to be coded from scratch rather than finding a template. You won't be utilizing Flash, but you will be using HTML/HTML5?/CSS/Javascript, and probably a bit of PHP or another dynamic programming language thrown in there as well depending on the sort of site you want to build.

[falkencreative]

I imagine that they are using the Google Maps API to access Google's data: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

 

You're looking at a lot of programming to get this working (I'd imagine, at least) so it's probably something that would have to be coded from scratch rather than finding a template. You won't be utilizing Flash, but you will be using HTML/HTML5?/CSS/Javascript, and probably a bit of PHP or another dynamic programming language thrown in there as well depending on the sort of site you want to build.