I'm trying to style a mapbox in "Mapbox Studio", but i can't get the solution of block zoom in/out.
I want to show the same roads (not less) behind zoom12 and zoom11. It's not about stylesheet, i mean its some defeault options of openstreetmap and maybe some1 know how to resolve it.
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Is there a way to insert the image overlay a layer below the streets but on top of the map background? The roads can be individually styled, so it should technically work, but I haven't been able to find the option for it.
The only lead I have found so far is this question: Google Maps API - Overlay Custom Roads
Which unfortunately doesn't really solve the problem of having to manually enter the street info.
I'm currently working on a custom map for a whole city and manually illustrate all the streets and enter the street names would take an enormous amount of time.
Any info would be very appreciated, thanks!
Try to check this documentation about Styled Maps. Styled maps allow you to customize the presentation of the standard Google base maps, changing the visual display of such elements as roads, parks, and built-up areas.
Here you can also find some sample code that you can use in your sample code.
Also you can find here the Styled Map Wizard.
Creating styles by hand and testing your code to see how they look is potentially time-consuming. Instead, you can use the Styled Map Wizard to set up the JSON for your map's styles. The wizard allows you to select features and their elements, apply operations to those features, and save the styles to JSON, which you can copy and paste into your application.
I am doing some research for what Map API to use for a coming project.
The main requirement is the ability to lock a map, and the ability to disable parts of the map.
Think about a special purpose map for Europe where I would like to disable and gray out the non-european countries.
A click on those grayed out areas should do nothing, meaning for all of the world except for Europe.
So, is it possible to disable large portions of the map?
Is it possible to add layers for the borders for each country, that is clickable, for instance on Germany?
I am looking at Bing or Google Maps at this point. Which one is more developer friendly one?
Bing looks so much nicer with the birds eye, much easier to read out the map and know what you are looking at. I find Googles full of clutter and always have problem knowing what I am looking at.
Possible approach(google-Maps): use a Polygon with multiple paths.
1 path for the entire world(vertices defined in clockwise order)
other paths for the enabled area(vertices defined in opposite clockwise order)
The result will be a polygon that covers the entire world with a hole for the enabled area. The map will not respond to click-events outside the enabled area(because it's covered by the polygon). The map will still respond to dblclick and zoom in, but this may be avoided by cancelling the propagation of the dblclick-event of the polygon.
It wouldn't be possible to gray out the dissabled area, but you could use the fillColor of the polygon to signalize which part of the map is disabled.
I was wondering how/if it was possible to make marker icons appear larger than the default in google maps street view. (they currently show up really small/hard to see.)
Thanks.
You need to use a larger icon (pixel-wise) and also set the size of the icon and/or scaledSize via the MarkerImage class.
Here is a quick and dirty example:
http://jsfiddle.net/AdnGH/
Here is the relevant documentation:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#MarkerImage
When clicking from one marker to another in Google Maps, the map screen animates the move smoothly if both markers are within them initial map view but jumps if one of the markers is off screen.
I'm trying to set up a map which has several locations within the main map area but has one which is 'off screen'. I have a signpost icon to the more distant location within the initial map area which I want to smoothly scroll to the off screen location when clicked (so as to give a better sense of it's relative location). I can't find anything in the Maps API which would let me do this however.
I could zoom out, move and then zoom in again but this looks a bit jarring. Am I missing something in the API, or does anyone have any suggestions?
Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible (without a change from Google). From the v3 API reference for panTo:
Changes the center of the map to the given LatLng. If the change is less than both the width and height of the map, the transition will be smoothly animated.
which implies that if that change is not less than the dimensions of the map, the transition won't be smoothly animated. The other pan methods are similar.
You could try moving in multiple steps but that's a bit of a hack and I suspect the result will be poor.
Sorry that's not very helpful (I have the same problem).
For me this method works, but i'm using Google Maps API v2.
LatLng latLng = new LatLng(lat,lng);
map.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(latLng, ZOOM_FACTOR));
This animates the camera from current position to the new one.
If you are using Gmaps API V2, then you can implement smooth animated move very easily by using panBy() method. You have to use fromLatLngToContainerPixel() method to find the amount of pixels to pan by.
Here is the bit of code:
var newLoc = map.fromLatLngToContainerPixel(new GLatLng(lat, lng));
map.panBy(new GSize( newLoc.x, newLoc.y ));
However, what I am trying to do is to achieve the same thing in maps API V3, but sadly fromLatLngToContainerPixel() method does not work anymore the way it did :(
I have a web application that needs to display 30,000 markers on a map at the same time. I don't want to use any kind of clustering. I need them to all be displayed.
I also need them to be clickable. The user can click on each point and a popup will come up with information about that point. Even at a low zoom level when there are thousands of markers in a single 256x256 square, the user needs to be able to click on them. It may be cumbersome for the user to click on a point thats bunched up with hundreds of other points, but if there happens to be one marker in the middle of nowhere, I want the user to be able to click on it right there instead of having to zoom in.
How do I do this? I know it's possible because I watched a video on google video where this guy creates a GTileLayerOverlay app that had clickable markers. He didn't explain how it was done though.
Is my only option to just remove the GTileLayerOverlay at high zoom levels and replace it with a true GMarker layer? I really don't want to do that. It seems over engineering to me.
If you were me, how would you go about this?
I found this example is in the Google Maps API Demo Gallery:
Clickable Tile Layer
This example creates a custom map type (GMapType) that shows regional borders and squares for county centers. When the squares are clicked, an info window opens with information about that county. The clickability is accomplished by passing in information about clickable pixel bounds in the cookies attached to the tiles, and doing a client-side check on mouseover for whether the mouse position was within the pixel bounds.
Here's some commentary on his method.
I don't have any experience with GTileLayOverlays, but I believe it is possible to accomplish what you're trying to do without using GMarkers.
Would it be possible to utilize clustering if each cluster could bring up a list of the markers it represents? It seems like having 30,000 markers visible at once would be visually confusing and difficult to navigate .