myDBR Google Maps extension uses Google Maps API V3 and when addresses are used it uses server-side geocoding. If you have a Google Maps API key, you can use it in user/defaults.php by adding the following line into it:

$mydbr_defaults['google_maps_api_key']='YOUR_API_KEY';

/* Mashup based on address */
select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'address';

select address, bubble_html
from mydb.data;

/* Mashup based on coordinates */
select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'coordinates';

select latitude, longitude, bubble_html
from mydb.data;

The command allows you to generate a Google Maps mashup (map, markers on the map, and the bubble). The command has two variations of input, one with coordinated (latitude and longitude) and one with the address based placing the marker.

Report place markers on a map based on their latitude and longitude.

/* We'll zoom the map to Paris */
select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'coordinates', 'French sightseeing', 400, 400;

select 48.858863, 2.294362, 'la Tour Eiffel'
union
select 48.861397, 2.335432, 'Musee du Louvre';

Report place markers on a map based on their address. Using address is quite flexible in Google Maps so we can just place the names we're looking for. This will produce the same result as the example above. The first column is used as the search criteria and the second one is used in the bubbles.

/* Center to US */
select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'address', 'Capitals of US States', 1200, 800;

select concat(state, ',', capital), capital
from mydb.us_states;

myDBR comes with a set of preinstalled markers.

Here is the list of preinstalled markers and the URL to be used. With preinstalled markers, myDBR automatically knows the size of the maker and applies the appropriate shadow to it.

Plain	URL	Dot	URL	Pushpin	URL
	blue		blue-dot		blue-pushpin
	green		green-dot		grn-pushpin
	pink		pink-dot		pink-pushpin
	purple		purple-dot		purple-pushpin
	red		red-dot		red-pushpin
	yellow		yellow-dot		ylw-pushpin
	orange		orange-dot

select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'address', 'French sightseeing', 400, 400;

select 'la Tour Eiffel', 'la Tour Eiffel', 'green'
union
select 'Musee du Louvre', 'Musee du Louvre', 'red-pushpin';

You can also use your own markers (any picture) with myDBR. To do this you need to provide the URL and the size of the picture (using '::' notation at the end of URL).

select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'address', 'French sightseeing', 400, 400;

select 'la Tour Eiffel', 'la Tour Eiffel', 'http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/cabs.png::32::32'
union
select 'Musee du Louvre', 'Musee du Louvre', '/myimages/monalisa.jpg::58::51';

Heatmap support uses Google Maps Heatmap Layer.

select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'coordinates';
select 'dbr.googlemaps.heatmap', 1;

select latitude, longitude
from mydata;

select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'coordinates';
select 'dbr.googlemaps.heatmap', 1, 'dissipating:false';

select latitude, longitude, weight
from mydata;

You can use custom SVG markers in Google Maps by adding an SVG chart as a marker parameter.

Define the SVG image you wish to use as a marker:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="100" height="100">
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="49" fill="red" fill-opacity="0.2" stroke="gray" stroke-width="1"/>
</svg>

select 'dbr.parameters.show';
select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'coordinates', 'Biggest cities in US', 700, 500;

select latitude, longitude, name, f_map_city_size(''user/images/circle.svg', population), '','', population
from us_cities
order by population desc;

where the f_map_city_size-function returns the size (in pixels) of the SVG image relative to population. For example: "user/images/circle.svg::160::160::center".

The route option allows for route planning. If you add an additional color column as last column into the query, you can define the route color and have multiple routes.

select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'address', '', 500, 600;
select 'dbr.googlemaps.route', 'walking';

select 'Parc Monceau, Paris'
union
select 'Arc de Triomphe'
union
select 'Eiffel tower';

select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'address', '', 500, 600;
select 'dbr.googlemaps.route', 'walking';

select 'Parc Monceau, Paris', 'blue'
union
select 'Arc de Triomphe', 'blue'
union
select 'Eiffel tower', 'blue'
union
select 'Petit Palais', 'red'
union
select 'Musée Rodin', 'red';

You can also include a KML and GeoJSON files to the map and access the Google Maps API in your report to further extend the map functionality

The Google_map.get_map_object-function can be used to get the Google Maps object. The function takes a resultclass as a parameter.

select 'dbr.resultclass', 'sample_map';
select 'dbr.googlemaps', 'coordinates', '', 700, 850, 0, 0, 9;
select 'dbr.googlemaps.kml', 'http://googlemaps.github.io/js-v2-samples/ggeoxml/cta.kml';
select 'dbr.googlemaps.geojson', 'user/chicago.geojson';

select 'Chicago';

select 'dbr.javascript', "Google_map.get_map_object('sample_map').data.setStyle({fillColor: '#94F2AC',strokeColor:'#888' ,strokeWeight: 1});";

myDBR will cache the geocode results (address to latitude/longitude conversion) into mydbr_geocode-table. One can disable the feature with $mydbr_defaults['geocode']['cache']-option.