I wonder how I can generate an image, actually a small circle
with color and number as parameter in Googlemaps?
So for example
MakeImage($FF0000, 5)
Will draw a red circle with number 5 in centre.
What is the best approach without pregenerate all possible
combinations as image-files?
In order to achieve this you can create an icon as Symbol interface and combine it with MarkerLabel. Note the presense of the property labelOrigin in the Symbol interface, it defines where you will put the label.
To demonstrate this approach I used the built-in SVG path google.maps.SymbolPath.CIRCLE. Have a look at the following example and run it to see circle Marker with number.
function initMap() {
var myLatLng = {lat: 47.363362, lng: 8.485823};
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
zoom: 7,
center: myLatLng,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.SATELLITE
});
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: myLatLng,
map: map,
title: 'Hello World!',
icon: {
fillColor: "#FF0000",
strokeColor: "#FF0000",
path: google.maps.SymbolPath.CIRCLE,
scale: 8,
labelOrigin: new google.maps.Point(0,0)
},
label: {
text: "5",
color: "white",
fontWeight: "bold",
fontSize: "16px"
}
});
}
/* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div
* element that contains the map. */
#map {
height: 100%;
}
/* Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
<div id="map"></div>
<script async defer
src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyDztlrk_3CnzGHo7CFvLFqE_2bUKEq1JEU&callback=initMap">
</script>
I hope this helps!
I suggest you to use custom markers, here and here you can find a well documented API and it's explained how to make markers with bitmaps and svg graphics. I suggest to use SVG path notation like this:
var map;
var my_location = { lat: 12.97, lng: 77.59 };
icon = {
//this is a string that define a circle path
path: "M 100, 100 m -75, 0 a 75,75 0 1,0 150,0 a 75,75 0 1,0 -150,0",
//this is a string that defines a hex color
fillColor: '#FF0000',
//this is a float that defines the opacity value from 0.0 to 1
fillOpacity: .6,
//this is a couple that defines a center point for the SVG
anchor: new google.maps.Point(0,0),
//this is a integer that defines the scale factor
};
function initMap() {
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
zoom: 16,
center: new google.maps.LatLng(-33.91722, 151.23064),
mapTypeId: 'roadmap'
});
function makeMarkerWithImageCircle(text,location){
var iconUrl = 'https://your_circl_image_url.png';
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: location,
label: text,
icon: iconUrl,
map: map
});
}
function makeMarkerWithSVGCircle(text,location){
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: location,
label: text,
draggable: false,
icon: icon,
map: map
});
}
//method to generate marker with custom image url and text
makeMarkerWithImageCircle("text",my_location);
//method to generate marker with custom svg and text
makeMarkerWithSVGCircle("text",my_location);
I guess you have your initMap() method wherein you initialise a Map instance
Then you can make your custom function to instantiate a custom Marker inside the Map map with a SVG as your icon property.
I didn't run this script, just wrote to explain how you can do this.
Have a nice day and I hope this was helpful (:
Can I use my converted image.svg as google map icon. I was converting my png image to svg and I want to use this like google map symbol that can be rotated. I already tried to use the google map symbol but I want to have an icon like car, man, etc... That's why I converted my some png files to svg, just like this example site what does he use for these http://www.goprotravelling.com/
You can render your icon using the SVG Path notation.
See Google documentation for more information.
Here is a basic example:
var icon = {
path: "M-20,0a20,20 0 1,0 40,0a20,20 0 1,0 -40,0",
fillColor: '#FF0000',
fillOpacity: .6,
anchor: new google.maps.Point(0,0),
strokeWeight: 0,
scale: 1
}
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: event.latLng,
map: map,
draggable: false,
icon: icon
});
Here is a working example on how to display and scale a marker SVG icon:
JSFiddle demo
Edit:
Another example here with a complex icon:
JSFiddle demo
Edit 2:
And here is how you can have a SVG file as an icon:
JSFiddle demo
If you need a full svg not only a path and you want it to be modifiable on client side (e.g. change text, hide details, ...) you can use an alternative data 'URL' with included svg:
var svg = '<svg width="400" height="110"><rect width="300" height="100" /></svg>';
icon.url = 'data:image/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8;base64,' + btoa(svg);
JavaScript (Firefox) btoa() is used to get the base64 encoding from the SVG text. Your may also use http://dopiaza.org/tools/datauri/index.php to generate base data URLs.
Here is a full example jsfiddle:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
zoom: 10,
center: new google.maps.LatLng(-33.92, 151.25),
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
});
var template = [
'<?xml version="1.0"?>',
'<svg width="26px" height="26px" viewBox="0 0 100 100" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">',
'<circle stroke="#222" fill="{{ color }}" cx="50" cy="50" r="35"/>',
'</svg>'
].join('\n');
var svg = template.replace('{{ color }}', '#800');
var docMarker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: new google.maps.LatLng(-33.92, 151.25),
map: map,
title: 'Dynamic SVG Marker',
icon: { url: 'data:image/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,' + encodeURIComponent(svg), scaledSize: new google.maps.Size(20, 20) },
optimized: false
});
var docMarker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: new google.maps.LatLng(-33.95, 151.25),
map: map,
title: 'Dynamic SVG Marker',
icon: { url: 'data:image/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8;base64,' + btoa(svg), scaledSize: new google.maps.Size(20, 20) },
optimized: false
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Additional Information can be found here.
Avoid base64 encoding:
In order to avoid base64 encoding you can replace 'data:image/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8;base64,' + btoa(svg) with 'data:image/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,' + encodeURIComponent(svg)
This should work with modern browsers down to IE9.
The advantage is that encodeURIComponent is a default js function and available in all modern browsers. You might also get smaller links but you need to test this and consider to use ' instead of " in your svg.
Also see Optimizing SVGs in data URIs for additional info.
IE support:
In order to support SVG Markers in IE one needs two small adaptions as described here: SVG Markers in IE. I updated the example code to support IE.
I know this post is a bit old, but I have seen so much bad information on this at SO that I could scream. So I just gotta throw my two cents in with a whole different approach that I know works, as I use it reliably on many maps. Besides that, I believe the OP wanted the ability to rotate the arrow marker around the map point as well, which is different than rotating the icon around it's own x,y axis which will change where the arrow marker points to on the map.
First, remember we are playing with Google maps and SVG, so we must accomodate the way in which Google deploys it's implementation of SVG for markers (or actually symbols). Google sets its anchor for the SVG marker image at 0,0 which IS NOT the upper left corner of the SVG viewBox. In order to get around this, you must draw your SVG image a bit differently to give Google what it wants... yes the answer is in the way you actually create the SVG path in your SVG editor (Illustrator, Inkscape, etc...).
The first step, is to get rid of the viewBox. This can be done by setting the viewBox in your XML to 0... that's right, just one zero instead of the usual four arguments for the viewBox. This turns the view box off (and yes, this is semantically correct). You will probably notice the size of your image jump immeadiately when you do this, and that is because the svg no longer has a base (the viewBox) to scale the image. So we create that reference directly, by setting the width and height to the actual number of pixels you wish your image to be in the XML editor of your SVG editor.
By setting the width and height of the svg image in the XML editor you create a baseline for scaling of the image, and this size becomes a value of 1 for the marker scale properties by default. You can see the advantage this has for dynamic scaling of the marker.
Now that you have your image sized, move the image until the part of the image you wish to have as the anchor is over the 0,0 coordinates of the svg editor. Once you have done this copy the value of the d attribute of the svg path. You will notice about half of the numbers are negative, which is the result of aligning your anchor point for the 0,0 of the image instead of the viewBox.
Using this technique will then let you rotate the marker correctly, around the lat and lng point on the map. This is the only reliable way to bind the point on the svg marker you want to the lat and long of the marker location.
I tried to make a JSFiddle for this, but there is some bug in there implementation, one of the reasons I am not so fond of reinterpreted code. So instead, I have included a fully self-contained example below that you can try out, adapt, and use as a reference. This is the same code I tried at JSFiddle that failed, yet it sails through Firebug without a whimper.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<meta name="author" content="Drew G. Stimson, Sr. ( Epiphany )" />
<title>Create Draggable and Rotatable SVG Marker</title>
<script src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"> </script>
<style type="text/css">
#document_body {
margin:0;
border: 0;
padding: 10px;
font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #f0f9f9;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000;
background:#1f1f1f;
}
#map_canvas, #rotation_control {
margin: 1px;
border:1px solid #000;
background:#444;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#map_canvas {
width: 100%;
height: 360px;
}
#rotation_control {
width: auto;
padding:5px;
}
#rotation_value {
margin: 1px;
border:1px solid #999;
width: 60px;
padding:2px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #00cc00;
text-align: center;
background:#111;
border-radius: 4px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
var map, arrow_marker, arrow_options;
var map_center = {lat:41.0, lng:-103.0};
var arrow_icon = {
path: 'M -1.1500216e-4,0 C 0.281648,0 0.547084,-0.13447 0.718801,-0.36481 l 17.093151,-22.89064 c 0.125766,-0.16746 0.188044,-0.36854 0.188044,-0.56899 0,-0.19797 -0.06107,-0.39532 -0.182601,-0.56215 -0.245484,-0.33555 -0.678404,-0.46068 -1.057513,-0.30629 l -11.318243,4.60303 0,-26.97635 C 5.441639,-47.58228 5.035926,-48 4.534681,-48 l -9.06959,0 c -0.501246,0 -0.906959,0.41772 -0.906959,0.9338 l 0,26.97635 -11.317637,-4.60303 c -0.379109,-0.15439 -0.812031,-0.0286 -1.057515,0.30629 -0.245483,0.33492 -0.244275,0.79809 0.0055,1.13114 L -0.718973,-0.36481 C -0.547255,-0.13509 -0.281818,0 -5.7002158e-5,0 Z',
strokeColor: 'black',
strokeOpacity: 1,
strokeWeight: 1,
fillColor: '#fefe99',
fillOpacity: 1,
rotation: 0,
scale: 1.0
};
function init(){
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map_canvas'), {
center: map_center,
zoom: 4,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.HYBRID
});
arrow_options = {
position: map_center,
icon: arrow_icon,
clickable: false,
draggable: true,
crossOnDrag: true,
visible: true,
animation: 0,
title: 'I am a Draggable-Rotatable Marker!'
};
arrow_marker = new google.maps.Marker(arrow_options);
arrow_marker.setMap(map);
}
function setRotation(){
var heading = parseInt(document.getElementById('rotation_value').value);
if (isNaN(heading)) heading = 0;
if (heading < 0) heading = 359;
if (heading > 359) heading = 0;
arrow_icon.rotation = heading;
arrow_marker.setOptions({icon:arrow_icon});
document.getElementById('rotation_value').value = heading;
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="document_body" onload="init();">
<div id="rotation_control">
<small>Enter heading to rotate marker </small>
Heading°<input id="rotation_value" type="number" size="3" value="0" onchange="setRotation();" />
<small> Drag marker to place marker</small>
</div>
<div id="map_canvas"></div>
</body>
</html>
This is exactly what Google does for it's own few symbols available in the SYMBOL class of the Maps API, so if that doesn't convince you...
Anyway, I hope this will help you to correctly make and set up a SVG marker for your Google maps endevours.
Yes you can use an .svg file for the icon just like you can .png or another image file format. Just set the url of the icon to the directory where the .svg file is located. For example:
var icon = {
url: 'path/to/images/car.svg',
size: new google.maps.Size(sizeX, sizeY),
origin: new google.maps.Point(0, 0),
anchor: new google.maps.Point(sizeX/2, sizeY/2)
};
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: event.latLng,
map: map,
draggable: false,
icon: icon
});
Things are going better, right now you can use SVG files.
marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: {lat: 36.720426, lng: -4.412573},
map: map,
draggable: true,
icon: "img/tree.svg"
});
As mentioned by others in this thread, don't forget to explicitly set the width and height attributes in the svg like so:
<svg id="some_id" data-name="some_name" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
viewBox="0 0 26 42"
width="26px" height="42px">
if you don't do that no js manipulation can help you as gmaps will not have a frame of reference and always use a standard size.
(i know it has been mentioned in some comments, but they are easy to miss. This information helped me in various cases)
OK! I done this soon in my web,I try two ways to create the custom google map marker, this run code use canvg.js is the best compatibility for browser.the Commented-Out Code is not support IE11 urrently.
var marker;
var CustomShapeCoords = [16, 1.14, 21, 2.1, 25, 4.2, 28, 7.4, 30, 11.3, 30.6, 15.74, 25.85, 26.49, 21.02, 31.89, 15.92, 43.86, 10.92, 31.89, 5.9, 26.26, 1.4, 15.74, 2.1, 11.3, 4, 7.4, 7.1, 4.2, 11, 2.1, 16, 1.14];
function initMap() {
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
zoom: 13,
center: {
lat: 59.325,
lng: 18.070
}
});
var markerOption = {
latitude: 59.327,
longitude: 18.067,
color: "#" + "000",
text: "ha"
};
marker = createMarker(markerOption);
marker.setMap(map);
marker.addListener('click', changeColorAndText);
};
function changeColorAndText() {
var iconTmpObj = createSvgIcon( "#c00", "ok" );
marker.setOptions( {
icon: iconTmpObj
} );
};
function createMarker(options) {
//IE MarkerShape has problem
var markerObj = new google.maps.Marker({
icon: createSvgIcon(options.color, options.text),
position: {
lat: parseFloat(options.latitude),
lng: parseFloat(options.longitude)
},
draggable: false,
visible: true,
zIndex: 10,
shape: {
coords: CustomShapeCoords,
type: 'poly'
}
});
return markerObj;
};
function createSvgIcon(color, text) {
var div = $("<div></div>");
var svg = $(
'<svg width="32px" height="43px" viewBox="0 0 32 43" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">' +
'<path style="fill:#FFFFFF;stroke:#020202;stroke-width:1;stroke-miterlimit:10;" d="M30.6,15.737c0-8.075-6.55-14.6-14.6-14.6c-8.075,0-14.601,6.55-14.601,14.6c0,4.149,1.726,7.875,4.5,10.524c1.8,1.801,4.175,4.301,5.025,5.625c1.75,2.726,5,11.976,5,11.976s3.325-9.25,5.1-11.976c0.825-1.274,3.05-3.6,4.825-5.399C28.774,23.813,30.6,20.012,30.6,15.737z"/>' +
'<circle style="fill:' + color + ';" cx="16" cy="16" r="11"/>' +
'<text x="16" y="20" text-anchor="middle" style="font-size:10px;fill:#FFFFFF;">' + text + '</text>' +
'</svg>'
);
div.append(svg);
var dd = $("<canvas height='50px' width='50px'></cancas>");
var svgHtml = div[0].innerHTML;
canvg(dd[0], svgHtml);
var imgSrc = dd[0].toDataURL("image/png");
//"scaledSize" and "optimized: false" together seems did the tricky ---IE11 && viewBox influent IE scaledSize
//var svg = '<svg width="32px" height="43px" viewBox="0 0 32 43" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">'
// + '<path style="fill:#FFFFFF;stroke:#020202;stroke-width:1;stroke-miterlimit:10;" d="M30.6,15.737c0-8.075-6.55-14.6-14.6-14.6c-8.075,0-14.601,6.55-14.601,14.6c0,4.149,1.726,7.875,4.5,10.524c1.8,1.801,4.175,4.301,5.025,5.625c1.75,2.726,5,11.976,5,11.976s3.325-9.25,5.1-11.976c0.825-1.274,3.05-3.6,4.825-5.399C28.774,23.813,30.6,20.012,30.6,15.737z"/>'
// + '<circle style="fill:' + color + ';" cx="16" cy="16" r="11"/>'
// + '<text x="16" y="20" text-anchor="middle" style="font-size:10px;fill:#FFFFFF;">' + text + '</text>'
// + '</svg>';
//var imgSrc = 'data:image/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,' + encodeURIComponent(svg);
var iconObj = {
size: new google.maps.Size(32, 43),
url: imgSrc,
scaledSize: new google.maps.Size(32, 43)
};
return iconObj;
};
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Your Custom Marker </title>
<style>
/* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div
* element that contains the map. */
#map {
height: 100%;
}
/* Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map"></div>
<script src="https://canvg.github.io/canvg/canvg.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script async defer src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?callback=initMap"></script>
</body>
</html>
You need to pass optimized: false.
E.g.
var img = { url: 'img/puff.svg', scaledSide: new google.maps.Size(5, 5) };
new google.maps.Marker({position: this.mapOptions.center, map: this.map, icon: img, optimized: false,});
Without passing optimized: false, my svg appeared as a static image.
I have a couple of issues:
I am trying to add my own marker to a map, but it does not seem to work.
Also when I try to refer the OpenLayer.js file locally the default red marker disappears.
I have found some examples on the net, but they have been unsuccessful I am afraid. So I thought to ask for some help here.
Now my code looks like this:
<div id="Map" style="height: 250px; width: 400px" ></div>
<script src="http://www.openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js"></script>
<%--<script src="js/osm/api/OpenLayers.js"></script>--%>
<script>
var lat = 55.676098;
var lon = 12.568337;
var zoom = 11;
var fromProjection = new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"); // Transform from WGS 1984
var toProjection = new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"); // to Spherical Mercator Projection
var position = new OpenLayers.LonLat(lon, lat).transform(fromProjection, toProjection);
map = new OpenLayers.Map("Map");
var mapnik = new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM();
map.addLayer(mapnik);
var markers = new OpenLayers.Layer.Markers("Markers");//("Images/Icons/map-marker.png");
map.addLayer(markers);
markers.addMarker(new OpenLayers.Marker(position));
map.setCenter(position, zoom);
</script>
and as you can see I have tried to refer to my own marker from 'Images/Icons/map-marker.png' without any luck.
Also you can see that I have tried to use a local copy of the 'OpenLayers.js', I don't know whether I should have it locally or always refer to 'www.openlayers.org', I believe referring local is good enough?
Also as I wrote earlier, if I refer the local .js file, the red marker, the zoom buttons and the OSM link disappears.
Can anyone help me out?
(You are actually asking a question about OpenLayers, not OpenStreetMap)
The OpenLayers Marker documentation provides an example for a custom marker icon. You have to create a OpenLayers.Icon object:
var size = new OpenLayers.Size(32,32);
var offset = new OpenLayers.Pixel(-(size.w/2), -size.h);
var icon = new OpenLayers.Icon("Images/Icons/map-marker.png", size, offset);
markers.addMarker(new OpenLayers.Marker(position, icon));
Where did you get your local OpenLayers.js copy from? It might be outdated if it doesn't work compared to the one version. And that's usually the reason why you want to keep a local copy of your libraries, because they won't change to a newer version automatically.
You should also make sure that the example you got from the web is up to date. Ideally you use one of the official OpenLayers examples.
Instead of OpenLayers you can also give the more modern and easier to use LeafLet library a try.
I found this at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Marker_API:
marker = new khtml.maplib.overlay.Marker({
position: new khtml.maplib.LatLng(0, 0),
icon: {
url: "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/de_de/mapfiles/ms/micons/red-pushpin.png",
size: {width: 26, height: 32},
origin: {x: 0, y: 0},
anchor: {
x: "-10px",
y: "-32px"
}
},
shadow: {
url: "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/de_de/mapfiles/ms/micons/pushpin_shadow.png",
size: {
width: "40px",
height: "32px"
},
origin: {x: 0, y: 0},
anchor: {x: 0, y: -32 }
},
draggable: true,
title: "moveable marker"
});