Does anyone know how to create a custom Google Maps infoWindow That will just open and fill over the map completely, instead of paning the map and setting the bubble over the marker? Basically, what I'd like to do is have my markers on the map, then when a user clicks on a marker, it just opens the content in a panel that fits the entire map itself. I looked at the options mentioned here: link but none of these seem to do what I'd like, they still open a "bubble" type of window. Has anyone done this or can someone point me in the right direction?
Creating your custom info window is not so difficult, but it's a little bit complicated.
If you want to find the easiest way, I recommend InfoBubble library.
http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/infobubble/examples/example.html
If you want to just prevent map panning when the infoWindow open, you can specify an option:
var infoWnd = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
disableAutoPan : true
});
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I am working on a Google Map project. I need to accomplish something interactive. On the map, there will be lots of markers indicating different places and one place will be set as center. Clicking on the marker will pop up the infoWindow. On the infoWindow there will be a link named “NEXT”. Hitting that link will take the viewer to another marker place. It seems to be straight forward, so my question is there any API method to accomplish such task? Any help/suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Use the domready event of the infowindow to bind your click events, as described here.
var infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
google.maps.event.addListener(infoWindow, 'domready', function() {
// whatever you want to do once the DOM is ready
});
So, having been recently somewhat dissapointed with lack of customizability of the regular google maps "embed" (iframe) code; I have started tinkering with the Google Maps API v3. Really, all I want to do is show a marker for a business on the map, so that you can click it and go to that "place" at mapsgoogle.com.
So pretty much, I just want to recreate the functionality of the iframe code below. I put in about an hour of reading the docs, but it seems extremely complicated just to get the marker associated with a 'place'
The place
https://maps.google.com/maps?cid=1311411133662139490
The standard Embed
<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?cid=1311411133662139490&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&t=m&iwloc=A&ll=41.097905,-73.405006&spn=0.006295,0.006295&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View Larger Map</small>
It appears as though there is no functionality in the api to use the cid.
To Elaborate a little
Generally I would use this just for small business websites. I was frustrated with the regular iframe embed and lack of customizability. Essentially I want a starting point from which I can play with stuff and heavily customize the look/feel, but have been unable to put a marker in that's associated with the data for a "place" - allowing for the little pop-up window, etc..
Honestly, I didn't really do enough research before asking this question - and came in with some misconceptions. I think, and I may be wrong, that the API is still what I want to be using ultimately, but had I know about the functionality in Rick's answer, I probably would have settled on that and procrastinated longer on learning the gmaps API.
Allow me to explain one option of achieving your goal. I use the marker and infoWindow objects that Google Maps API v3 offers, which you can find in the document I attached in the link. Feel free to follow along in the jsFiddle I created: http://jsfiddle.net/bgvYH/
First thing is first, you want to initiate your map with its options - I'm going to assume you know what the different variables in following code snippet represent:
var myLatlng = new google.maps.LatLng(41.097905,-73.405006);
var myOptions = {
zoom: 16,
center: myLatlng,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
}
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);
If you want to customize your map even more to your liking, have a look at the different options you can set in the API reference, you'll set these options in the myOptions object ( https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#MapOptions ).
Note: I set the center of the map to the Lat/Long coordinates of the restaurant - which I took from the URL you provided in the iframe ll=41.097905,-73.405006.
Now what you want to do next is determine the content you want to display in your infoWindow, so the restaurant information:
var contentString = "<div id='content'>";
contentString += "<div id='title'>Mr. Frosty's Deli and Grill</div>";
contentString += "<div id='info'><p>10 1st Street</p><p>Norwalk, CT 06855</p><p>(203) 956-5767</p><p><a href='http://thebeachburger.com/'>thebeachburger.com</a></p></div></div>";
You may even end up pulling this information from a database or JSON object in the future, depending on how deep you go into this project (for now I have it as static HTML).
Next we initialize the infoWindow object and set the contentString to the content option of the infoWindow. There are other options you can customize here (just like the map options, again look at the reference for InfoWindowOptions: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#InfoWindowOptions )
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
content: contentString
});
After setting up your infoWindow object, you initialize your marker object - which will place the drop the bubble on the map. Once again, you set up the options for the marker when initializing much like you did with the map object and the infoWindow object - you can further customize it to your liking by looking at the reference (I think there's even an option in there for the marker where you can use custom icons - you can get pretty creative here).
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: myLatlng,
map: map,
title:"Mr. Frosty's Deli and Grill"
});
And finally, you need to bind the Marker and the infoWindow together - so that when a user clicks on the marker the info pops up. This is achieved by using the event listener, and you listen for a "click" action on the marker variable. Read this document for information on events on google maps https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/events. Likewise look through the API Reference for the different events you can listen to on an object.
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
infowindow.open(map,marker);
});
That should do it, you should have a working alternative to the iframe you include - except now you can customize the map and the actions you perform on it to however you want. In the jsFiddle I also included some styling, just to make things look nice inside the infoWindow.
Now, I want to let you know - I believe there is another option to what your looking for - but I have yet to experiment with this API. It is the Google Places API, which you'll have register for. But from what I read through the documents, I think you may be able to achieve what you want to do. Have a look at it ( https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/ ), and see what's good.
It looks like this was created through 'My Places' and made public. If you don't want to mess with the API then that's your best bet.
Visit maps.google.com, click 'My Places' and 'Create Map'. Customize and grab the embed code.
If the map doesn't need to be interactive (beyond the click action), use a static map. It's just an image so you can wrap it in an anchor that points exactly where you want.
I know that many of us are writing code to open an InfoWindow when a marker is clicked. But the InfoWindow will stay in place until the upper-right X is clicked, which means that setting the associated Markervisibility to false will create what is essentially an orphaned InfoWindow. And there could be multiple InfoWindow instances displayed on the Map at the same time. I guess it's simple enough for the user to just click the InfoWindow closed, but it feels like hiding the Marker should hide the associated InfoWindow.
I have started writing code like the following to deal with this scenario:
google.maps.event.addListener( marker, "click", function() {
var bubble = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
content: buildBubbleContent( param1, param2 )
});
bubble.open( map, marker );
//pretty standard stuff to here, but the next line is new (for me):
google.maps.event.addListenerOnce( marker, "visible_changed", function() {
bubble.close();
});
});
Is this what everyone else is doing? It feels like a design pattern that should be called a ListenBack. I've never seen the issue addressed in the Google Maps docs. I can't help but think that there must be a simpler mechanism built into the InfoWindow to take care of this automatically. Is there a standard way to do this that I have just missed?
For a single infoWindow I always create it as a global during map initialization. My click event starts with:
if(infoWindow != null){
infoWindow.close();
}
infoWindow.setPosition(mouseEvent.latLng);
infoWindow.setContent("....");
// etc
I'm marking this question as answered, because I have continued scouring the docs and looking at many code samples, but haven't found any other solutions. There is certainly no facility provided with the InfoWindow to automatically remove it from the map when the associated marker is turned off. If anyone finds a better option later, I will happily mark their solution as the better answer.
I am using the Maps API (v3, javascript) to display a bunch of local properties for sale on this client's website. When the user mouses over a marker, it loads an infoWindow with property information. Problem is, when this is down near the edge of the map, it pans the map to show the info window, which can cause issues when lots of markers are close by.
So I added disableAutoPan: true to the infoWindow call, and it seems to solve the problem. However, after some more testing, if the user manually moves the map and then hovers over a marker, the resulting infoWindow pans the map. It's like it's ignoring the setting for the infoWindow.
Anyone else have this issue or any ideas how to solve it? The code I used to call the infoWindow is below:
infoWindowAjax = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
disableAutoPan: true,
maxWidth: '260'
});
I have many map markers with the exact same lat/long cords so no matter how far in I zoom my map still shows the marker cluster and the number of results.
Is there a way to have some onclick or onhover event so that it shows an info box with all of the markers in that cluster in a list? Then clicking a link within that info box opens up that individual marker info box?
I've read solutions to change the lat, long by a small amount so that they aren't the same location. I think that is very messy and not that good anyways if there ends up being multiple markers 10+ anyways at the same locationg. I think it'd be much easier for a user to just click the cluster and bring up the info window with all of those markers in there with links.
Or if someone knows another plugin that does what I am seeking I could work with that too. I just haven't found much info on it.
There might be a plug in out there to do what you want, but it's also possible to do without one. I did something like that in one of my projects.
Add event listener to each marker; clicking opens marker list info window
The content of the marker list info window contains onclick attributes that will open the marker info window.
My code was tucked away into functions, but it was basically just this:
//1) while creating marker, create click listener that opens the marker list
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
markerWindow.close();
markerList.open(map, marker);
});
//2) store the content required by the marker's info windows
var markers = [
[marker1Reference, "The Stadium"],
[maerker2Reference, "The Supermarket"]
];
//3) the function that is called each time a marker is chosen from the marker list
function openMarkerInfo(markerIndex) {
markerList.close();
markerWindow.setContent(markers[markerIndex][1]);
markerWindow.open(map, markers[markerIndex][0]);
}
//4) info window for the marker list - the content includes JS onclick events that will open each marker info window
markerList = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
content: "Choose:<br><br><div href='' class='markerLink' onclick='openMarkerInfo(0)'>The Stadium</div><br><div href='' class='markerLink' onclick='openMarkerInfo(1)'>My House</div>"
});
//5) the marker window that will get set each time a marker is clicked in the list
markerWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
Hope that helps!