After the first post on Google Maps integration with OBIEE we found that things worked swimmingly with Firefox but a very annoying looking error message was being produced with Internet Explorer(IE).

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Google Maps is very popular and when someone first mentioned to me that an integration between OBIEE and the Google Maps API was possible I was totally stoked. For a sales, marketing, supply chain and many other subject area reporting analytics this is awesome.  You get the picture. 

Recently a colleague mentioned they were having problems getting the integration to work and I just had to chime in.  They had done several things right, such as getting the API key from google (one should always register it for http://localhost/ unless domain restrictions don’t otherwise allow for full blown testing using this URL) , they had built a simple report with city, state, and zip, and they downloaded a code snippet from another OBIEE blogger who has also been playing with the integration. That blogger had them off to a decent start but they immediately noticed problems with the logic. They were unable to view the map properly when editing, etc.  The other OBIEE Google map bloggers have probably never done any serious web development integration before and that’s where the problems start. I’ll seek to set you on the correct path in this blog series.  I’ll start you with a simple example of an Answers Google Map integration and the code that goes along with it.  So, if you want your report to look similar to the one below, without any glitches, then continue reading and follow along.

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