I have found location on google map and get custom iframe code with marked location. However marker always disappears from map after several days.
Here is our website about page: http://witcraft.ru/about. Location of our office was marked, but now the marker has disappeared.
Also we have same issue on other websites. How can I avoid this behavior?
Regards,
Alexey Zakharov.
Looks like the only way to ensure that marker won't disappear is to use company website name during the query.
So if you want to mark your company that has your-company.com domain you should search it on google maps and when grab embeded code. Keep in mind that your-comapany.com domain should be mentioned in company description that you send to Google Places service.
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I was searching the web for the past two days and I wasn't successful in finding what I want.I want to add my own place (for example my home) to the google maps and then get the coordinates of that place in order to place it in my google maps code in my website.
the only way google is showing me to do so is to add a job for my google coordinates account and then add my custom location(and of course I should pay for it).But this is not a job,I just want my place's coordinates to use in my google maps code!
ps:I've even seen people add their own location with full details of their place in the google maps and I'm pretty sure they didn't pay a penny for it(and everyone in the world can see their place!!!)
So here's the question:How can I do this without paying anything?
Go to the google map on web browser and go to the place what you want by zoom and move and at click you would see the coordnates that you may use in google map code.
No need to add you own place.
When I am adding a Google Map marker using this tutorial, I am able to add my own content into the body of the marker. Instead of adding my own content, I want to use the content that Google has stored about my business. I am wondering how would I be able to do this?
As far as I know, there is no way to have Google populate the marker for you. On my site I use the Google Places API to display info on the tooltip when a marker is clicked.
You can query the places API to using the Google reference number. Here's a direct link to the Google PlaceDetailsRequest section. Scroll down and you will see the PlaceResult object which gives you all the data Google has about that particular place.
If you just want to display the information for your business, you are better off statically putting the content into the marker. Otherwise, if the data needs to be dynamic you need to pull it from somewhere yourself and Google Places is good if you don't have your own data.
Is it possible to have a google map embeded street view panorama of a given address in your page?
All the codes I have came across work with coordination, I'm looking for "address", since if you just use coordination you will have to set pov and all that,
Google seems to do that itself, look at the panorama picture here:
http://maps.google.ca/maps/place?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=10&gs_id=z&xhr=t&biw=1680&bih=874&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=toyota+calgary&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=toyota&hnear=0x537170039f843fd5:0x266d3bb1b652b63a,Calgary,+AB&cid=16440335169618939517&ei=VpqYTpPsLbCrsALi0LnqBA&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=map-marker-link&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CF8QrwswAA
Thanks
Yes, using the Google Maps Javascript API V3. Take a look here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html#StreetView
You can also embed Street View on your page by just using Google Maps.
Search for the address on Google Maps.
Go to the Street View for the location.
Click the link button in the upper-right hand corner above the map.
Click the 'Customize and preview embedded map' link.
A new page will open up with some customization opens and the code to embed the map/image on your page.
Yes you can. All you need is a google decoder who will decode your address. Another way is to directly pass your address as a part of the url to google.
When using decoder, you will get the result in the form of a latitude longitude object which you can use to reset/set your map's marker
There is no way to accurately set the heading automatically and no way to set the pitch and fov (field of view) - BUT if you figure these out manually you can create a URL that fetches a static image with those settings from Google
Take a look at this tutorial on the Street View Image API
I know I can do it with the Google Maps API, but do you know if there is a way to change the marker in an embedded Google Map?
I want to replace the default "A" button for a "B" button or the marker with just a dot in the middle.
I haven't played around with embedding Google Maps before (I generally go straight to the API for stuff like this). I tried a couple of approaches:
I figured maybe the embed syntax would be the same as the static maps api. So I grabbed a static maps URL, copied the markers param from that and tried sticking it into the iFrame URL. This didn't work so much.
I created a Google MyPlaces and customized the marker to use the one your provided. This created a Test map which had the appropriate marker icon. I then grabbed the embed code and stuck it on a test page and voila!
Actually I had the same problem but didn't use any of the methods above and thought I share:
If you only want a marker as I did but don't want to use API then simply fool google into thinking you want a route planned using the GET tags "saddr" and "daddr"
"saddr" defines your start location (post code , street name+ number, whatever)
ONLY define saddr and leave out daddr and google maps will by default still show the marker for "A" (your start location) exactly where you want it , all in iframe without API.
how do get different link of "send to friend", "print map", and "get direction" link in the marker info box related to that marker.
Is there any API for that to get this type links.??
Thanks in advance.
There is nothing explicit in the Google Maps API that will show the maps.google.com InfoWindow , you will have to build that functionality into your own GInfoWindow. For the functionality you describe, you could do the following:
send to friend - Some server side code to email your site URl to a user specified email address?
print map - Link to a cut down page that displays a Google Static Maps image (for the equivalent location). The various browsers will do a better, more predictable job of printing an image than they will a Google Map DIV.
get direction - You can use the GDirections object to GeoCode to addresses and display the driving directions between those two points (on the map and with instructions).