I have been playing around with the Google Maps API and have created my very own photo album / map. The API is nice, but Javascript is horrible.
I have managed to get it working so that I can just edit an XML file to add new pictures. It would be nice to have a way of selecting the year and having just the markers for that year showing.
There is a strange effect where the information displayed in the InfoWindows sometimes overflows, but when you redisplay the InfoWindow it resizes correctly to contain the information properly. Not sure what is causing that.
