google-maps

How do I retrieve a list of businesses from Google Maps and display it in a J2ME Midlet application?

I want to enter a string containing information about the place, along with the type of business. For example new york bank. When I enter this on Google Maps, I see a map of New York, along with red dots which represent banks. I know how to retrieve a static image (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/) and display ...

Unable to display google maps in a dojo layout

Dear All, I am a real newbie in programming and now I have to combine Google Maps and Dojo. Both alone are fine but when I try to implement a Google Map into a Dojo content pane which is embedded in a border-container it simply does not work. I think there is a problem with the naming of the divs but perhaps there is something else to t...

MapActivity launching from OnClickListener

Just started working with android and ran into a small problem. I am have a TabActivity that is loading 3 other Activity classes. This works great. I then have a button on the other Activity classes that I would like to launch a MapActivity. When I do that I keep getting a Force Close. I googled but I cannot figure out if it is the man...

iPhone MKAnnotation Show popup?

I have a MKMapView that has a pin and when pressed shows the annotiona Title and SubTitle. Is there a way in code to have this text shown automatically so the user need not click it? If I have many pins, can the all appear as well? ...

Pan point on Google Map to specific pixel position on screen (API v3)

When overlay is a Google maps overlay and offsetx, offsety is the pixel distance from the maps center that I want to pan latlong to, the following works. var projection = overlay.getProjection(); var pxlocation = projection.fromLatLngToContainerPixel(latlong); map.panTo(projection.fromContainerPixelToLatLng(new google.maps.Point(pxlocat...

GoogleMaps - show location based on city and street

Greetings, In my page I would like to display a google map with the location of companies. I have the following credentials for company: City, Street How can I display the map having by using these data? ...

Where to write map.checkResize();

In google map code, where to write map.checkResize() ? My code is var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), { googleBarOptions:{ onGenerateMarkerHtmlCallback: doGenerateMarkerHtmlCallback, showOnLoad: true } }); marker = new GMarker(new GLatLng(lat, lon)); var topRight = new GCo...

how to code: "floating image" google maps control

look at this url there is the "floating image", the one with arrow that when clicked centers the map on a certain location. I have been desperately trying to find out the way to do that, and I have coded my google maps app with just that one thing missing. any ideas? EDIT: try navigating away from the center of the map (which would be ...

get and parse JSON with jquery from gmaps to find coordinates

hi! i wanna parse a json like this http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=milano&sensor=false only to find the latitude and longitude of an address (in this case is milano). anyone can help me? thanks a lot in advance :) ...

Google Maps showing black instead of transparency on location bubble in Internet Explorer

Hi there... I am having problems with the shadow under the location information bubble on google maps in Internet explorer. It is showing black where the transparant shadow should be. Of course it works fine in firefox. Anybody know how to fix this? Or at the very worst disable the shadows underneath altogether? Here's the map that I ...

-How can I "preload" the Google Maps API in a FLEX 3.5 TabNavigator Tab ?

Hello, I have a Flex 3.5 Air Application; The main window has, besides the header, a TabNavigator. In a Tab, I've put a Google Maps object. It works fine, except that it "loads" very slow and the whole application freezes ( not responding problem ). Now I would like to fix that but don't really now how to implement one of these soluti...

Google Maps 'API key' problem

I finally got this google maps page working however, it seems that everybody except the client can see it? They're saying the following error message appears "This web site needs a different Google Maps API key. A new key can be generated at..." Here's the page: http://www.sportingemporium.com/google-map.htm When I sign-up for a new ke...

MapActivity using Google Earth Enterprise

Is it possible to have a MapActivity that gets its data from a Google Earth Enterprise server on an Intranet? If so, how? ...

iPhone dev - showing two locations on the map

Now I have the coordinate of two locations, let say locationA with latitude 40 and longitude -80, locationB with latitude 30 and longitude -70, I want to create a mapView that I can see both locations with appropriate viewing distance. I got the new coordinate by finding the midpoint (in this example, {35, -75}), but the question is, ...

Determine the lat lngs of markers within a polygon

I have a google maps app which plots markers as it loads. One of the new requirment is to to add a Polygon overlay encompassing a selection of markers by the user. I was able to achieve that using the Geometry Controls of the GMaps Utility Library Now, the next step is to form a group of the selected markers for which I would need to de...

Displaying the infoWindow in Google Maps at the same time as the marker

Hi all, I have developed a Google Map page which displays a marker where I tell it to. If you click the marketr, the infoWindow pops up. However, I was wondering if anybody knows how to open the infoWindow and display the marker at the same time? (as in onload) Here's the page: http://www.sportingemporium.com/map_test3.htm This seems l...

Google map infowindow maxWidth issues

USing version 3, the maxWidth doesnt seem to work if it's less than 200 ...

Dynamic Overlays slowing down Google Maps (Android 2.1) on Nexus One

Hi, I'm trying to create a dynamic ItemizedOverylay (please see the code below) on Google Maps (Android 2.1) on a Nexus One. In my Activity (that extends MapActivity) I'm creating a data thread that is receiving data from the network. A 'handler' is used to communicate the data from the receiving thread to map activity. This data co...

Google maps never display in IE8

I've used Google map in my asp.net application. It shows empty space in IE8 where Google map is placed, it works fine in Firefox and Chrome. ...

div on top of div with Google Maps API

How do I float a div "menu" on top of my Google Maps API "map" div. And maybe possibly add a transparency of 50% on the menu div. Can this be done? #map {width: 835px; height 540px; float: left;} #menu {width: 145px; float: right; padding-top: 10px;} <div id="map"></div> <div id="menu"></div> ...