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I'm using the Google Maps API v3 to generate some minimaps. I have one custom marker in a small map with controls hidden. This works great. Now, I'd like to add a link so that clicking this marker will open the full Google Maps with this location selected. Seems obvious.
I'm creating a marker like this.
var pin = new google.maps.LatLng(myLat,myLong);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: pin,
map: map,
title:"Hello World"
});
This seems like it should be obvious, what am I missing? Do I need to construct my link and assign it myself?

This should work (not tested):
var pin = new google.maps.LatLng(myLat,myLong);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: pin,
map: map,
title:"Hello World"
});
google.maps.addListener(marker, "click", function() {
window.location = "https://maps.google.com/maps?ll="+pin.toUrlValue;
});
Working example (built on an existing example, not from the above code)

Ended up finding the answer thusly:
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
window.open("https://maps.google.com/maps?ll="+pin.toUrlValue(),'_blank');
});

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Get latitude and longitude of mouse click in KML plotted using geoxml3

Is there any way to get the right click event on a parsed KML layer using geoxml3 on google map.I am getting the right click event of map ie outer region of KML. But i am not able to get the click event on the parsed KML.
I have used like this
var geoXml = new geoXML3.parser({
map: map
});
geoXml.parse('file.kml');
geoxml3 parses the KML to native Google Maps Javascript API v3 objects. To add a right click events to them, you need to either add custom createMarker, createPolyline, createPolygon functions that add the right click listeners as the objects are created or process the results and add the listeners to the output.
The following was helpful and got the latitude and longitude when right clicked on a KML layer in google map
var geoXml = new geoXML3.parser({
map: map,
afterParse: function (doc) {
for (var i = 0; i < doc[0].placemarks.length; i++) {
var p = doc[0].placemarks[i];
clickablePolygon(p);
}
}
});
geoXml.parse(parameter.FileName);
function clickablePolygon(p) {
google.maps.event.addListener(
p.polygon,
"rightclick",
function (event) {
var clickedLocation = event.latLng;
var latlng = {
lat: clickedLocation.lat(),
lng: clickedLocation.lng(),
zlevel: map.getZoom()
};
}
);
}

Google maps performance with 2000 markers

I have am displaying 2000 markers on google maps. I notice the performance is a little slow. What I am not sure about... is it it slow because if the number of markers added to the map or visibility? How do I improve the performance? Can I just add them to the map and "hide" markers outside of bounds? Would that help or would it not because even though its not visible, its added to the map? The data to show the markers is in an list called var datapoints = [...].
My code to add markers is like this:
for (i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
var data = markers[i]
var myLatlng = new google.maps.LatLng(data.lat, data.lng);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: myLatlng,
map: map,
title: data.title
});
(function (marker, data) {
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, "click", function (e) {
infoWindow.setContent(data.description);
infoWindow.open(map, marker);
});
})(marker, data);
}
Any optimization recommendations appreciated!
You have a few options here. Google's docs suggest either limiting visible markers to the current viewport, clustering (distance or grid based), or fusion tables. I've implemented google maps with a customization of the MarkerClusterer module that works quite well for large amounts of markers on one map. Best of luck!

Get google map Markers location in Meteor js

I need to know about to get google map points location in Meteor JS.For example in my map showing 10 pointers based on location latitude and longitude.When ever click a marker then shows location based on that pointer in a new window(or popup).
I didn't get any idea about this.So please suggest me what to do for this?
Thanks in advance.
What you need here its an InfoWindow, wich have the content option.
So lets say you have this simple initialize function
initializeMap = function() {
//Common code to init the map.
//common code to create dynamic markers already give you an answer here
//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28424854/how-can-i-create-multiple-markers-on-a-google-map
//now on the same function lets add this code
function createMarkers(){
for(var i = 0 ; i <latLong.length ; i++) {
//lati and long are declared as global variables.
lati = latLong[i].lat;
longi = latLong[i].long;
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: new google.maps.LatLng(lati, longi),
map: map,
icon: 'http://Yourimagesourcehere'
});
//and this is how you call it.
myInfoWindow(marker2,map,lati,long);
}
//Function to created infoWindows.
function myInfoWindow(marker2,map,lati,long){
google.maps.event.addListener(marker2, 'mouseover', function() {
for(var i=0;i<markerArray.length;i++){
infoWindow.setContent( 'My lat is ' + lati + "my long is " + longi );
infoWindow.open(map, marker2);
}});
google.maps.event.addListener(marker2, 'mouseout', function() {
infoWindow.close();
}
}
}
So like you see based on the other question How can i create multiple markers on a google map, in this example we added the new function named myInfoWindow with 4 parameters, the marker,the map, and the 2 variables for the content (in this case late,long)
If you have doubts about how to init the map or how the code should look i have this DEMO and here is the Source Code, just add the infoWindow function inside the createMarkers function and it should work.
Tell me if Works.

google maps infoWindow click event re-renders map-canvas in Meteor

Hey Im trying to use google maps within my MeteorJS project to have google maps display on a map all customers, and then to display an infoWindow when you click on one of the markers.
problem is anytime you click on the marker it re-renders the map from scratch, i know this has to do with the the reactivity of the Session variable being set when the infoWindow is being clicked.
is there any way avoid the map being re-rendered when the session variable is changing?
thanks.
below is the JS and template im using in my project.
<template name="customers_map">
{{#constant}}
<div id="mapWrapper">
<div id="map-canvas"></div>
</div>
{{/constant}}
</template>
the code for making the google maps and markers.
Template.customers_map.rendered = function() {
$("#map-canvas").height("400px");
if (navigator.geolocation) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(p) {
Session.set("myLat", p.coords.latitude);
Session.set("myLng", p.coords.longitude);
});
}
Deps.autorun(function(){
var mapOptions = {
center: new google.maps.LatLng(Session.get("myLat"), Session.get("myLng")),
zoom: 15,
zoomControl: true,
zoomControlOptions: {style: google.maps.ZoomControlStyle.SMALL},
streetViewControl: false,
mapTypeControl: false,
scaleControl: true,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.SMALL
}
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map-canvas"), mapOptions);
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
content: Template.customers_infoWindow()
});
Customers.find().forEach(function(customer) {
if (customer.loc != null) {
var geo = customer.geoLocation();
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: new google.maps.LatLng(geo.lat, geo.lng),
title: customer.name(),
icon:'http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/green-dot.png'
});
marker.setMap(map);
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
Session.set("customerId", customer._id);
infowindow.open(map,marker);
});
} else {
console.log(customer.name() + " has no geoLocation");
};
});
});
};
the infoWindow template
<template name="customers_infoWindow">
<h1>{{record.name}}</h1>
</template>
and the js for the infoWindow template
Template.customers_infoWindow.record = function() {
return Customers.findOne({_id: Session.get("customerId")});
}
If you create a global googlemaps object, you can access its properties from anywhere. This article has a nice example of doing this.
The overall gist is:
Create a googlemaps class with an initialize method. At the end of the initialize method, set a session variable for your map's existence. ( Session.set('map', true);)
Call create a googlemap object by calling the googlemap init method from within Template.customers_map.rendered.
It's a bit difficult to be sure without having a running version in front of me, but I think this is essentially because you have all your code in one big Deps.autorun block. Clicking one of the markers is changing the Session variable customerId, which will cause customers_infoWindow to re-render (as it's clearly a dependency), but I'm sure this is the intended behaviour.
However, since you're declaring var infoWindow in your Deps.autorun block to have an instance of that template as one of its properties, I think that changing customers_infoWindow will actually invalidate the entire Deps.autorun calculation, which means the whole block will be executed again, including the var map = new google.maps.Map(...) line, which will essentially re-render the map (even though it doesn't re-render that actual div element that contains it).
So, I would suggest splitting your code into separate Deps.autorun blocks, and making sure that anything in the same block should be re-run at the same time - clearly, this means that the Google Maps initialisation code and the infoWindow handler should be in separate blocks.
To reiterate, I think that's what's going on, but you'll have to try it and let me know...

Pointer on google map

I have requirement of displaying an address on a click of a button, for which i got the latitude and longitude of the desired location,
while mapping in URl
https://maps.google.com/?ll=28.64036031970850,77.24250191970849
like this. I don't get the desire pointer on google map Like which we get A in red pointer.
Thanks for any assistance.
Try this. Change the lat/long as per your need.
https://maps.google.com/?q=22.917923,72.773438
You can use custom markers for this. Here is a snippet to get you started:
// Create the map
var map = new google.maps.Map($("#map-result"), mapOptions);
// Create the marker on the map
var marker = new CustomMarker(new google.maps.LatLng(pinLatitude, pinLongitude), map, searchResults[i], markerNumber);
// Add listener to react to click of marker
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', (function (marker, i) {
return function () {
// Call some function to do something
showSelectedMarker();
}
})(marker, i));
A very good example is here:
Google Maps JS API v3 - Simple Multiple Marker Example

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