Show new "3D style" pan control only in Google Maps

Question

Hello,

Is there a way to only show the "3D" style panning control in Google maps, i.e. don't show the zoom controls.

Regards, Jonathan

Answer 1

I think the best you can do with the standard controls is GSmallZoomControl3D(). This is a 3D panning control without the zooming slider, but with a zoom in and zoom out button:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GControl

Otherwise you can subclass GControl and implement your own 3D panning control. There is a description of this here:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/controls.html#Custom%5FControls

Or for a trivial solution ... See ChrisB's answer ;)

Answer 2

You can easily accomplish this with CSS. Usually this would be difficult in the Google Maps API, but fortunately each element of the 3d Control has an id.

Add the 3d control:

map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl3D());

Add these styles to your page:

#lmcslider { display:none; }
#lmczo { display:none; }
#lmczb { display:none; }
#lmc3d { height:58px; }