I need to display an interactive map with zip codes showing their boundaries and have different colors for the zip codes like this:
http://www.usnaviguide.com/zip.htm
Enter in a US zip code and click on "Find Zip code".
Perhaps I am overlooking it, but I've not been to find examples of this and documentation talking about this specifically at Google Maps API documentation. I've trying doing a view source on the above web page link, but it doesn't seem obvious to me how it works. There is also other stuff on the page which I don't know if it's part of what I need or not.
Some simple code examples would be very helpful! Thanks!
Best Answer
Here is a zipcode map for the US that I put together with FusionTablesLayers:
http://www.geocodezip.com/geoxml3_test/v3_FusionTables_zipcode_map.html
It doesn't have different colors, but you could change that.
John Coryat made that map using a tile server, you can do the same with Google Maps API v3 custom maps.
code snippet from example: