I'm trying to make a small application that takes a city & state and geocodes that address to a lat/long location. Right now I am utilizing Google Map's API, ColdFusion, and SQL Server. Basically the city and state fields are in a database table and I want to take those locations and get marker put on a Google Map showing where they are.

This is my code to do the geocoding, and viewing the source of the page shows that it is correctly looping through my query and placing a location ("Omaha, NE") in the address field, but no marker, or map for that matter, is showing up on the page:

function codeAddress() {
<cfloop query="GetLocations">
    var address = document.getElementById(<cfoutput>#Trim(hometown)#,#Trim(state)#</cfoutput>).value;
      if (geocoder) {
         geocoder.geocode( {<cfoutput>#Trim(hometown)#,#Trim(state)#</cfoutput>: address}, function(results, status) {
         if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
             var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
             map: map, 
             position: results[0].geometry.location,
             title: <cfoutput>#Trim(hometown)#,#Trim(state)#</cfoutput>
             });
         } else {
            alert("Geocode was not successful for the following reason: " + status);
            }
         });
      }     
</cfloop> }

And here is the code to initialize the map:

var geocoder;
var map;

function initialize() {
    geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(42.4167,-90.4290);
    var myOptions = {
      zoom: 5,
      center: latlng,
      mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
    }
    var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
          position: latlng,
          map: map,
          title: "Test"
      });
    map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);
}

I do have a map working that uses lat/long that was hard coded into the database table, but I want to be able to just use the city/state and convert that to a lat/long. Any suggestions or direction? Storing the lat/long in the database is also possible, but I don't know how to do that within SQL.