I have a fully functioning map using the API v3 with markers placed as a result of database searches, and info windows that pop up correctly. So far, so good.
What I would like to do is to allow the user to place a marker on the map manually, i.e by dragging and dropping a placemark in exactly the same way as google "My Maps" uses to build a map or by clicking on the map.
There are several reasons for doing this, but one is that I would like the user to easily identify a centre point of interest so that I can filter searches within a radius of this point.
I would have thought that this option would be useful to others.
Maybe I am using the wrong search terms for this, and the terms "marker" and "placemark" seem to be interchangeable, which doesnt help, but I cannot formulate a search which has even shown that anyone else is trying to do this.
Have you seen this example of the drawing tools, it allows you to add Markers, Polylines and Polygons, you can customize it to just do Markers.
Here is the documentation for the Drawing Manager
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I was wondering if you could put a custom StreetView with a marker. I am making a map that has city parks. I want it so if someone clicks on a specific marker, the custom StreetView pops up and shows the panorama. For the custom StreetViews I used Google Views. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, this is possible. Something close to it can be done in two ways.
The easiest option is to load Google maps from the main URL and wait. It will let you build a map or view your custom maps just below the search bar. Google Maps itself lets you create a custom map with markers. This doesn't sound like your desired option, but it is quick to implement. You can even add your own style.
The second is to create your own custom Street View tour, this sounds like your focus. You want the actual panographs to use your markers. This is fairly easy to do, but requires some programming. It is possible on both Google Earth and Google Maps. Check out the Google APIs such as https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#StreetViewPanoramaOptions. Options include changing out panographs for your own images, defining arrows including labels, overlays, pop-up boxes, action boxes, and more. Check out some options here: http://hpneo.github.io/gmaps/examples.html
I'm looking for a way to add images to the Google Map interface itself, not fixed on a point on the geographical map but on the Google Maps "window". Something to display Map Legends on the map itself.
I've been looking through the net but can't seem to find a way to do this. As you can tell I don't really know what this is called also, so that may be the reason why I ca
You have to open infowindow on map and put image in it.
Try with this answer : google maps api v3 - how to display image thumbnails inside bubble?
I have a new google map app using v3 of the API. On it I have a few custom markers with info windows. I use a global variable to ensure only one info window opens at any one time - everything is as it should be.
However the map comes with many local business markers, just like the ones all over this map (http://goo.gl/maps/M6m3), all of which open their own infowindows. If I click on one of these my infowindow doesn't get closed, and if I click on one of my markers, the built in infowindow also doesn't close - leaving multiple windows open.
Can this be resolved?
Sounds like you want the "Points of Interest" (AKA POI) on the map to not be clickable (or to be able to capture the click on them).
This was tracked as an FR in the issue tracker and was recently implemented using a new property clickableIcons in MapOptions
If you set it to false, POI features will no longer be clickable. You can also use the get/setClickableIcons methods on the Map object to change this dynamically.
One other way to deal with them is to remove POIs from the map (using styled maps), if you don't want to have the infowindow open when they are clicked.
Here (How to remove certain places on a map ) is one discussion on the v3 API group about using styled maps to remove them.
And here (Disabling POI's InfoWindows - workaround found) is another.
At least now it doesn't cost more to do that (styled maps used to be more expensive than normal maps).
I'm currently creating an interactive web map using Google Maps Javascript API version 3. I'm not sure if this is possible but I would like to create a series of map layers consisting of different kml files that could be toggled from the side bar. I would also like to be able to access the individual points within the kmls so that when the user clicks on a particular point, photos, text etc. can be loaded outside the map window...
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I've been searching for a while and only found ways of configuring the infowindow which I personally find unattractive...
There is a way to load KML into a google maps application natively, there is actually a pretty good example of how this is done here:
http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/layers/layers.html
One trick I will mention is that since the KML is downloaded to Google's servers in order to be rendered on the map, it must exist on a public facing web server somewhere, Google won't be able to access it from your local machine.
I found this tutorial which seems like it'll do the trick!
When i am searching for some country area in maps on standard web UI it shows me the area borders.
I would like to mark this areas dynamically in embedded map on my website, but i dont know how exactly i have to formulate search query to find if there is some way to achieve this.
I was not found anything about this in reference.
does google offer some API for this in last maps js API?
You need a Polygon-Overlay or a KML-Layer which defines the borders.