I'm looking for a way to use a custom UIView (not just a custom image) instead of default marker provided by Google Maps iOS SDK. Basically I need a possibility to place my UIView agains proper coordinates of the map, so not necessarily to use markers as they are, just any suitable solution. Any ideas?
There is not currently a way to do this. You can view the relevent feature request (and star it, to show interest) here: https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=5203
The marker only shows an image. So it cannot take a CustomView. Moreover, if your custom view has some sort of button on it there is no way you can track the events from those button.
In simple words the map renders the markers as UIImage.
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So basically what i'm trying to achieve is this functionality in google maps v3,that they have in openlayers: http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.11/examples/image-layer.html
Hide the base layer of googlemaps (the actual map), and then add a image overlay that is placed over the entire surface of the map.
Is this possible? and do anyone have any solutions at hand?
It's called a GroundOverlay: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#GroundOverlay
However, while a GroundOverlay covers the base map, it does not remove it. You'd need a custom map type for that: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/maptypes#CustomMapTypes
It would be fairly easy to develop a custom map type that always returns a blank tile.
I am making an application with google maps.
When markers are overlapping only the last one is displayed even if the icons are different..
I do not want it to cluster in that case, rather it should show both maybe by changing the coordinates just a but??
Any solutions??
I think this is a pretty elegant solution, called Spiderfying the markers.
https://github.com/jawj/OverlappingMarkerSpiderfier
I'm thinking of using it.
What I do now is use JavaScript to make a fancy popup that hides and shows divs on one marker location (created problematically in PHP, but you could do it on JS too). It has the side benefit of allowing less markers on the map.
Click a black numbered marker on this map to see it in action.
http://www.yourmapper.com/map/111/crime-reports/crime-in-metro-louisville-ky-since-jan-2003.htm
Another option is to use Google Maps API 3 Utility Library, it has a Marker Clusterer.
I am using this api
http://gwt-google-apis.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/maps/1.1/index.html
, the GWT Google Maps API, in my application.
Now I want to render some text on different coordinates on the map. But.... how?
I have googled around, but it seems there isn't a clear solution?
Any ideas if/how it is possible using some sort of JSNI solution?
You can add markers to the map as described in the GWT Maps Getting started Guide:
LatLng cawkerCity = LatLng.newInstance(39.509, -98.434);
map.addOverlay(new Marker(cawkerCity));
If you want to render your text directly on the map, you can extend com.google.gwt.maps.client.overlay.Overlay (to create a text overlay). An example of a custom map overlay can be found at http://timlwhite.typepad.com/blog/2008/08/creating-custom-google-maps-overlays-with-gwt-widgets.html
How can you use a custom tileset/overlay on a Google map, like was done here:
http://www.philaplace.org
That is pretty cool, and I would like to experiment with this.
There are a couple different ways to do it. One way is to create a GTileLayer object and implement the getTileURL() to return the URL pointing to your tiles.
But first you'll need an image that's cut properly in the tile format. For starters, I'd recommend you look at MapTiler: http://www.maptiler.org/ It will cut images for you AND generate a GoogleMap with the overlay.
You'll want to look at Google's Overlays (especially Custom Overlays) and Custom Map Types documentation for Version 3 of their Maps API.
I want to add traffic information to my custom map. Currently I'm using a Tile Layer Overlay on my Google Map to display custom map tiles. When I try to add GTrafficOverlay to my map, my custom map tiles display above the traffic information. Is there any way to display the traffic above my GTileLayerOverlay?
(Using the JavaScript api)
You should be able to do this in V3. Take a look at this sample: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/overlays.html#ImageMapTypes
I tried this out and wasn't able to find a solution to the problem. There is nothing in the GTrafficOverlayOptions and I couldn't find anything in the references about the z-order of this stuff. I have suspect that this isn't possible.
Would love to see an alternative answer showing that I am wrong.