I was playing around with Google maps and my maps kept producing a strange object error. What I found out was that some of the data that I was pulling into the Google Map (was creating multiple data points) had hidden characters that were breaking the Google Map, especially in IE.
There is a simple query that you can run from phpMyAdmin or whatever tool you use to manage your mysql database:
UPDATE `Shoppe` SET `Address1` = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(Address1, CHAR(10), ”), CHAR(13), ”), CHAR(9), ”) WHERE Shoppe_ID = ‘KS0113022b042′
UPDATE `TableName` SET `FieldName` = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(FieldName, CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), ''), CHAR(9), '')
Obviously, change the TableName and FieldName to your corresponding values, but other than that, this cleaned up the problem nicely.
The Google map displays perfectly now.
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Dude, great post about search engine optimization. Definitely better than anything I’ve ever seen posted by Google.