This article explains how to dynamically toggle the visibility of markers in Google Maps as well as how to deal with an annoying bug that occurs when trying to do this while using an utility library, like the MarkerManager.
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Yesterday a new version of the ever so popular Google Maps API was released. In the new version the focus has been on improving speed, especially on mobile devices. I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of the beta testing and has been able to provide feeback directly to the developers. So far I think they’ve done a great job, even if there’s still more work to be done.
Having Info Windows in a Google Maps is a powerful way of displaying information about a specific point or object. Did you know that there are several kinds of them?
In this article I will show you how to add different kinds of Info Windows that appear when you click on a marker.
Markers is one of the core features in Google Maps and an effective way of displaying places on a map. In this article I will show you how to add a basic marker to a map and also how to add some interactivity to it.
When developing web applications we can never be sure what the environment for the user is. He could for example use our application from a mobile device with a browser with limited Javascript support. Like Roger Johansson pointed out in Making Google Maps more accessible, we must prevent our applications from breaking under these circumstances by making them degrade gracefully.
In this article I will show you how to make Google Maps degrade gracefully by providing a fallback for non-javascript users using the Google Static Maps API.
Google Static Maps API is an easy way to provide a map when the user doesn’t have Javascript available. Sure it’s not near as powerful as the full Google Maps API but still, it can provide you with a basic map that can contain both markers and paths.
A few month ago I posted about a demo where I used content marked up with Microformats to populate a Google map using Javascript. Well, now I’ve improved that demo somewhat.
In part 1 I showed how to use and optimize performance on polylines in Google Maps using Javascript. In this article I will show you how to get even better performance by encoding the polylines on the server.
Normally when you initialize a new Google map you set the coordinates for the center of the map and manually specifies the initial zoom level. Sometimes, however, there’s a need to dynamically calculate the center point and zoom level for certain content to fit into the viewport.
Polylines are used to mark out roads, borders and other things that are made of lines in maps. The Google Maps API offers a class for drawing these lines on a Google Map called GPolyline. In this article I will show you how to use these and how to deal with potential performance issues when the polylines gets more complex.
I’m currently developing a web application that uses Google Maps and have lots of markers with custom icons to mark different things on the map. To administer all these different icons is quite a chore and it took me some time to find an effective way of working with them.
Inspired by an article I’ve read on 24-ways I’ve built a demo-page for using content marked up with microformats to populate a Google Map.
Unfortunately the demo is in Swedish, but I think those of you who doesn’t speak Swedish can easily understand it anyway.
The main concept is to use a list of folksong festivals in Scandinavia, carefully marked up with microformats, as a data source. I then use Javascript to loop through the content and populate the map.
I got the list of festivals from www.nordvisa.org. Thank you Chris!
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