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MapYourBuddies - Working on Iteration 3 - (3/3) Preparation to highlight buddies in the friends list where we don't have an address & Google Map Marker

What you guys will probably point out in the Iteration 2 reviews of our MapYourBuddies project is that when there is a friend in the friends list who doesn't have stored his/her hometown location in facebook (in an appropriate way e. g. only "MI, USA" or not at all) then currently you can click on the name and just a JavaScript error occurs:

markers[id] has no properties
[Break on this error]
markers[id].openInfoWindowHtml(listelements[id]);


MapYourBuddies_I3_FriendslistMapMerge1.jpg

To solve this issue I analyzed our current structure and basically we need to merge/integrate/redesign our "create Google Map Marker & Info Window" function with the "create Friends List" function.

Honestly, I guess, I need to rewrite huge parts of the "create Friends List" function to make it work and using the results from geocoding to decide if a "Friends List Entry" should be click able or not (and if not than highlighting this entry).

Anyway, this is a known issue and I probably cannot work on it until the end of next week ... But I am sure, you will mention it in your iteration 2 reviews ;)

- Just that you know, that we already know this issue :)))

-Joern