Map, Map, a map of Chicago Top Elementary Schools
I have to say this is the most sophisticated Google map I have created so far. And it is significant on both the practical and technical side.
On the pratical side:
Knowledgable friends always admonish me: "Do not send your kids to a public school, Otherwise you will ruin them. Move to the surburb. "
Well, there are so many sides of Chicago public schools, good ones, not-so-good ones, bad ones ..., magnet, classical, gifted centers, community ... test-based, open-enrollment, lottery picked ... Based on the 2006 Chicago Sun Times school ranking, it turned out, the best elementary school in the state of Illinois is not from the upper-class suburb Wilmette, or Buffalo Grove, or Barrington, it is Decatur Classical right here in north Chicago. There are other eight schools made in the top 50 elementary schools of the state Illinois.
From next year on, I will cross my fingers for Emma to get in one of them. (Or have not I already?)
On the technical side:
(I have to admit that I have shamelessly stolen codes from various website and had forgotten from where. Sorry, sorry ...)
1. css style is applied to make the map pretty.
2 school list is loaded on the fly based on XML data; so the basic statistical information for each school
3. I added directions (to here, from here) box to InfoWindow of the map and enable users to search directions to and from for each school. This is the newest addition to my ammunition of attacking Google Maps.
4. Enjoy the map.
