We initially had an issue within Moocher between our Google Maps “View Event” applet and the Facebook Comment system because the applet needed to be placed within an iFrame in order for its JavaScript to work correctly, and FBJS was not robust enough for what we needed. A page could display Facebook Comments or an iFrame, but not both.
The workaround we have implemented bypassed our “Display Event” applet by providing the user with a direct http hyperlink to Google Maps that is automatically generated for each individual event with the related search parameters. The syntax for our http query is: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=
The Google Maps http query is flexible and allows a geographic coordinate to be included and specific markers to be placed on the map. This will allow us to refine our query results in the next phase. We used the same concept to make our “Add to Google Calendar” link. Moocher pulls information from the Facebook and Moocher event pages and generates a link that instructs Google Calendar to create an event reminder with event info, time, location, mooch type, etc.
The syntax for this is: http://www.google.com/
For more information about Google http parameters, please visit: