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Start your free trialmanuel arvizu
Courses Plus Student 3,030 Pointscreate custom markers for each location google maps v3
any one can help me solve this: im trying to put custom icon or markers for each of the locations, i serch all the web for the awnser and the google docs but with no luck... thanks in advance.
btw im using the infobox for customize not the info window
here it's the code:
βvar infobox = new InfoBox();
function initialize() {
var secheltLoc = new google.maps.LatLng(32.46, -114.76);
var myMapOptions = {
zoom: 14,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
center: secheltLoc,
disableDefaultUI: !0,
panControl: !1,
zoomControl: !0,
minZoom: 2,
scrollwheel: true,
zoomControlOptions: {
style: google.maps.ZoomControlStyle.DEFAULT,
position: google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_CENTER
},
mapTypeControl: !0,
mapTypeControlOptions: {
mapTypeIds: [google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, google.maps.MapTypeId.HYBRID],
position: google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM
},
addressControlOptions: {
position: google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM
},
streetViewControl: !1,
styles: [{
featureType: "poi",
elementType: "labels",
stylers: [{
visibility: "off"
}]
}]
};
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), myMapOptions);
google.maps.event.addListener(map, "click", function() {
infobox.close();
});
var marker = createMarker(map, new google.maps.LatLng(32.47568191956827, -114.78429794311523),
"text");
var marker = createMarker(map, new google.maps.LatLng(32.47741970524178, -114.78361129760742),
"text");
var marker = createMarker(map, new google.maps.LatLng(32.480804670595184, -114.77479219436646),
"text");
}
function createMarker(map, latlng, html) {
var boxText = document.createElement("div");
boxText.style.cssText = "line-height:20px; border: text-align:justify; none; margin-top: 6px; background: #2b2b33; color: white; padding: 20px;";
boxText.innerHTML = html;
var myOptions = {
content: boxText,
disableAutoPan: false,
maxWidth: 0,
pixelOffset: new google.maps.Size(-167, -10),
zIndex: null,
boxStyle: {
background: "url('tipbox.gif') no-repeat",
width: "275px"
},
closeBoxMargin: "-4px -8px -11px -11px",
closeBoxURL: "img/close.png",
infoBoxClearance: new google.maps.Size(1, 1),
isHidden: false,
pane: "floatPane",
enableEventPropagation: false,
};
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
draggable: false,
position: latlng,
visible: true,
icon:"icon.png",
});
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
infobox.open(map, this);
infobox.setOptions(myOptions);
});
return marker;
}
2 Answers
Caroline Hagan
12,612 PointsHi manuel arvizu I've had to use multiple markers before and saved the code; hopefully you pick from this what you need:
manuel arvizu
Courses Plus Student 3,030 Pointsthanks :D