Comments on: Effective Use of Custom Icons in Google Maps

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:22:40 +0000

Thank You.

By: sergey

sergey — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:50:33 +0000

Hi!Thank you for your tutorials.
The question is: how many different icons can we use for one map to not cause delay while loading?

By: E

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:09:50 +0000

This tutorial just saved me from insanity. Thankyou for your code.

By: Gabriel Svennerberg

Gabriel Svennerberg — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:59:24 +0000

Ok, now I understand. Sorry for being so daft!

The data originates in a database but is served to the script through an AJAX call that returns JSON. Then I simply loop through the JSON object and pass the type to the icons array like this.

for(var i = 0; i < json.length; i++) {
    var point = new GLatLng(json[i].Latitude, json[i].Longitude);
    var marker = new GMarker(point, { icon: myIcons[json[i].Type]});
    // Do some more stuff to add the marker to the map
}

By: interested

interested — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:11:16 +0000

sorry for the confusion

My question was in your posting you said you use

var marker = new GMarker(point, { icon: myIcons[type]});

instead of

var marker = new GMarker(point, { icon: myIcons['house']});

I would like to know how you are passing the ‘house’ variable to ‘type’. Are you grabbing it from a database, xml or some other way.

By: Gabriel Svennerberg

Gabriel Svennerberg — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:25:33 +0000

I don’t think I understand your question. Could you please elaborate?

By: interested

interested — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:23:19 +0000

Sorry for being an idiot but how do you pass the type to the type variable?

var marker = new GMarker(point, { icon: myIcons[type]});

I have a column in my database that labels (e.g. 1 , 2, 3 ) locations. How do I pass that label to the type variable?

Thanks in advance.