How'd you get that search automated?

I do most of my stuff via a perl backend on my webserver but there is a neat pure html/javascript way to do it.

First you need to get a map key for your website.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

Second view and copy source from this page.
http://maps.juhlin.com/maps/geomulti_demo.htm

Third Replace my map key with yours.
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=2&amp;key=***your_key_here***" type="text/javascript"></script>


Fourth Put the addresses you want in here.

var addresses = [
"PAWNEE EAST, OK",
"MEHAN NE, OK",
"RATTLESNAKE, OK",
"ORLANDO EAST, OK",
"HARTSHORNE, OK"
];


Fifth upload the file to your webserver and view it. It will process about one record every 2 seconds.

It works nice up to about 1000 records then the browser slows down so I suggest breaking the data down into ~1000 record chunks.

Edit; Oho another thing is that is is usually best to provide a full state name to Google as they will often interpret CA as Canada and CO as Columbia and KY as one of the Former Soviet republics.

Here is another source for a simpler multi geocode solution.

http://www.batchgeocode.com/

I really don't like it though. It uses Yahoo's geocode model which tries to always return something. If it can't find a city within a state it returns the center of the state. Google tells you when it cant find something which is much more useful IMO.