google-maps

Google Location API vs. Maps: Why are identical queries yielding different results?

I'm losing some hair over Google's AJAX API currently. What I do is turning structured location data into a Google local search API query in order to give users an alternative result list of places. ex.: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&key=XXX&hl=en_US&mrt=localonly&rsz=large&q=pizza+Neus...

How do I hyperlink an Excel cell to google map

"I know how to hyperlink a cell to google maps using: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.516804,-90.549316&spn=1.08996,2.58728&z=9 What I am try to do however is add parameters for a placemark and a label into the http:// code. So that when the map opens the placemark is at the coordinate and the is a label attached to i...

Is it possible to filter a list/table while zooming/panning a Google Map?

What I'd like to do is pretty simple in theory: a Google map is on the left, and a list/table is on the right. Each item in the list/table is plotted on the Google map. As you zoom in and out on the map, the list/table is 'filtered' to only show the rows that are visible on the Google map. Is this something that is possible? Edit: My l...

Google Maps JQuery Plugin Problem

Has anyone been able to get this to work? http://code.google.com/p/jquery-googlemap/ I only seem to get it to work if in debug:true, even then nothing appears like directions. I am looking for a way either in PHP or jquery to set the address and have the map set it dynamically, as it's one page with the address of many places loaded ...

Change Google Maps Infowindow Close Icon

How can I change the default graphic for the Infowindow close button? ...

Best approach to a dynamic google map?

I have a php page that will render a profile of a place from a database. I am looking for a way to have a "view-map" option that either dynamically get's filled and links to google, or figure the best solution with jquery or normal JS. I can place the address using php, or have it be pulled for a jquery application. I am really not th...

Multiple markers in Googe Maps API v3 that link to different pages when clicked

I have a map with multiple markers, which I populate via an array. Each marker is clickable and should take the user to a different url per marker. The problem is that all the markers, while displaying the correct title, all use the url of the last entry in the array. Here is my code: var myOptions = { zoom: 9, center: new google.maps...

How to create progress bar on top of google map

How do I create a progress bar on top of google map in flex/as3? I tried to ask google maps API for flash, but no answer... May be some of you have done this already. Thanks EDIT: Can it be done using mx.controls.ProgressBar? ...

Google Maps stealing focus when map is below the fold.

I have a website which is using Google Maps to display the location of a property. This map is located below the fold on the website. In IE8, Firefox, Safari etc this is working fine, but in IE7 (at the moment, specifically on Windows XP, can't really test on Vista/7 at the moment) the Maps seem to steal the focus and scrolls the page d...

Unable to get point in Google Maps API call

I had the following HTML page rendering to use the Google Maps API. This has been running for about two months and all the sudden just stopped working. I am trying to get the point with the getLatLng function and it appears to be returning null everytime. Has anyone experienced a similar issue or see anything wrong here? Any help is appr...

Strategies for large volume of location geocoding

I have an application that uses the Google Maps API to geocode distances between lat/long pairs as a way of displaying people near to you on your phone (currently Android, working on iPhone). The issue is that even with a test group of 40 users, we are taking upwards of 10 seconds to do our calculations and send the results back to the u...

Image series (animation) over Google Maps

I'm new to Google map api. My goal is to overlay a series of transparent PNGs over a map over a timespan. I'm wondering if a purely javascript approach to this is a good start, or if it would be not too hard to do some code behind in asp.net Also, I'm curious if either google map Api v2.x or v3.x is better suited to this task ...

Google map in iphone

Hi, I am developing an iphone application which uses google Api to draw polylines on map and search area based on the selected area.I caught the click event in google map to show a busy indicator and caught the lineupdated event in to hide the busy indicator,to maintain user experience in slow connectivity.Now the problem is that ,i cant...

Millions of small graphics files and how to overcome slow file system access on XP

Hi, I'm rendering millions of tiles which will be displayed as an overlay on Google Maps. The files are created by GMapCreator from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. The application renders files in to a single folder at a time, in some cases I need to create about 4.2 million tiles. Im running it on...

GWT MapWidget from javascript as GMap2

Hi, I am using GWT for google map application. I use Google's gwt-maps.jar for mapping api. I can create a map as private MapWidget mapId; if (Maps.isBrowserCompatible()) { mapId = new MapWidget(); mapId.setPixelSize(600, 500); RootPanel.get("gmap").add(mapId); mapId.setCurrentMapType(MapType.getHybridMap()); mapId...

subgurim: can i set the z-order of painted GMarker?

Hi, i'm painting some GMarkers on a subgurim map. sometimes the GMarkers overlap each other. That isn't a problem, but i want one specific one, which is kwown when i put them on the map, on top of all the others because that is the one the user clicked latest. i thought i could just add it to the map as the latest one and it woul be on ...

Move Google Maps logo when using in a iPhone app

I wonder if it's possible to move the Google logo that shows at the bottom left corner of every MKMapView object that is used in a iPhone app. I don't want to make it disappear, just move it, for example, to the bottom right corner. Any thoughts on this? Thanks! ...

How can I center a small google maps on an info window as opposed to a point?

I'm working on a small side bar google maps/twitter widget. Every few seconds the map pans to the next point associated with a tweet and displays the tweet in an info window. The problem is that the info window sits in the corner of the map due to the map attempting to center on the point. Img: http://yfrog.com/5yscreenshot20091029at10...

KML to google maps

I have a KMZ file containing an animation for google earth. the KMZ contains KML with and a series of PNGs to overlay in a latlng boundary. I want to 'port' this to google map api, but some tags (timespan importantly) are unsupported. What is the most painless way to start accomplishing this task? ...

Google Maps - slow loading polygons

I've got a KML with 127 simple polygons in it. If I load them all in via GGeoXml then it's lightning fast, and when you zoom in/out it redraws all the polygons (just about) instantly. When I use either EGeoXml or CsGeoXml classes then zooming in/out becomes slow (about 4-6 seconds) as it redraws the polygons 20-30 or so at a time. I n...