Google Map API on a Ning Website

Hi, Thanks for considering my project. The detailed specs come later. The overview is below: My site is gaybarculture.com. (Actually it's [login to view URL]; Ning is both my host and my off-the-shelf social network software.) The main page will include an interactive 400 x 400 map, which you will create, and, below the map, the bars' listings, which I will create. This main page is outlined on the following url: <[login to view URL]> (The big yellow box here represents the map.) ## Deliverables The map will be a Google API map with zoom and scroll capability. The placemarks represent the bars' locations. Each placemark will be represented by a numerical icon (1, 2, 3, etc.). These numerical icons correspond to the number of the bar's entry below the map. In its default view, the map is centered over the city and most of the placemarks are visible. (While he can see most of the placemarks, the user may have to scroll in order to view placemarks on the outskirts of the city.) When a user hovers his mouse very near to or over the placemark, a descriptive window for that bar will pop up on top of the map. (Please note that the user need only hover the cursor, not click the cursor. It is also important that the descriptive window pop-up without too much of a delay, and that it neither disappears too easily nor is too difficult to make disappear when the user moves his cursor.) This descriptive pop-up window will include three elements: Image (of the bar), text (the bar's details to the right of the image, and the bar's one-line description underneath the image) and hyperlink (some of the text is clickable, and so is the numerical icon that serves as the bar's placemark). These hyperlinks will open the bar's individual page in a new window. Here's an example of one of those individual pages: <[login to view URL]> There are two other interactive elements of this map. The first of these two involves filtering the placemarks by the descriptive tags that are listed to the right of the map. These tags include types of bars (Cheap Drinks, After Hours) and nights (Monday, Sunday). When a user wants to see which bars are the best ones to visit on a Monday night, he clicks "Monday," at which point only those bars tagged "Monday" appear on the map. The second of these two interactive elements involves recentering the map according to neighborhood. So when a user clicks "West Hollywood," the map recenters around West Hollywood. I want you to create a single map with just a few listings as a template. I must have the capability to resize the map, reset the default zoom and centering in both city and neighborhood views, change the locations of the placemarks, revise the information in the descriptive pop-up window (again: image, text, and hyperlink), add and remove entries, add and remove tags and neighborhoods, and duplicate the map for other cities. If it is easier for you to avoid creating an easy back-end for me to make the above revisions, I am happy to change the code myself. You would just need to show me which sections of the code do what. It depends on whether it would take a significant amount of time for you to create the back-end. I am happy to give you my login info so you can see what the back-end of Ning looks like. For my site I can create pages that support HTML, PHP, and embedding both remote content and iframes. I'm looking for low- to mid-level developers to do this for me on a tight time-frame. Please don't hesitate to call or email. <PaulBookstaber@[login to view URL]> or (323) 275-7857. Cheers, Paul