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geocoder xml coordinates lat/long order reversed?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:42pm CEST by MPS

Are the "coordinate" values in the Google Maps geocoder in the
"correct" order?

[link][location]&output=xml&key=[my key]

returns:

...
<Point>
<coordinates>[long],[lat]</coo rdinates>
</Point>
...

This is the reverse of the usual order (lat, long). Just curious why
GGeoXml behavior

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:31pm CEST by Dmitry

Hi Everyone,

I've been facing some serious difficulty with the objects that are
instances of GGeoXml. Namely, there is little you can do with them
(few useful methods are available), and generally the API seems to
juggle these objects from among classes.

For example:

__Confusion #1__

var polygon = new GGeoXml("url"); // lets assume this is a polygon
InfoWindow width not keeping up with text

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:20pm CEST by Tony

I searched extensively through the forums and the solution outlined
about cascading sheets didn't help me out so:

link: [link]

The vertical height of infowindow is fine but sometimes with longer
text strings it falls outside of the bubble. I tried doing the class
KML will not display w/in Map

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:01pm CEST by john

Hello All,

I'm trying to display a very simple KML file w/in a map and am at a
loss to understand what the problem is. Just don't know how I could
make it much simpler:

var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById( "map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(40.0, -105.2), 13);
var kml = GGeoXml("[link]");
Maximum # of Points for an Encoded Polygon?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 10:15pm CEST by Ryan Ward

Hi again!

I'm trying to plot points on the polyline encoder,
[link]
and it lets me plot as many points as I would like. However, when I
take the encoded ino and place it in my map, it is distorting badly
and will not complete the polygon. The example on my test page shows
publishing images of google maps

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 9:51pm CEST by Tom

Hi folks,

I wrote a publication with some google maps api captures that will be
distributed in a proceedings paper. I believe that I need to submit
the publication to google for permission. Can anyone tell me the web
site I need to go to submit this.

thanks,
Tom
helping my dad, please advise

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 9:38pm CEST by jj

why wont the marker show up and show up blue?

[link]
One last check

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 9:15pm CEST by jeffwx

Hello Everyone,

I hired a developer to make a google maps mash-up. I am almost done
and just want to verify a couple of things.

My business provides other websites with the ability to overlay data
on a Google Map. Obviously I don't and can't sell google maps but I do
provide a service that allows them to integrate the data on a Google
Removing empty tabs

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 9:08pm CEST by Gady

Parsed from an XML, I have lots of points, and 8 possible tabs for
each infowindow, one for address, the remaining for each day of the
week. Some of the points will only have data for some of the days, and
some for every day. I want to only include tabs in each point's
infowindow that actually has data in it, so I don't have any empty
Re: problem with api key

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 7:10pm CEST by geocodezip@gmail.com

this seems to be a copy of the loader script from Google:
[link]

Use it the way you are supposed to and it might work better:
<script src="[link]
key/here" type="text/javascript"></scrip t>

(like it said when you registered for the key...)
is it possible set the location in the body

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 6:46pm CEST by Yuan

hi.

may i know the google map the set position must put in the
<head>
<!-- set location-- >
</head>
<body onload="load()" onunload="GUnload()">

</body

is it possible set the location in the body
<head>

</head>
<body >
<!-- set location-- >
</body

if can, have any example?
Can the invocation of getMarkers() be delayed until a marker is clicked?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 6:46pm CEST by Daniish

Hello,

I am trying (sometimes i think in vain) to get particular markers to
display their attributes in my poi_overview div (the white box on the
left of my site): [link]

At present i'm using the following conditional loop to do this, but at
present the poi_overview div is being pre-populated as soon as you
Map stopped working

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 6:40pm CEST by Jake

Hi, my map suddenly stopped working. When you input a from address and
click go, the directions do not display. Here is the code:

jasonpbauer.com/directions.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"[link]">
<html xmlns="[link]" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-
How do i get my GPolylines to follow GDirections on the fly?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 6:35pm CEST by Daniish

Hello,

I have made use of GPolylines on my map ([link]
index_overlay.php) to link together markers that are on a route that i
define. At present this draws a straight line between the markers,
which doesn't look very good!

Is it possible to make use of the GDirections class so that when the
how to make such a "more" button like on google maps

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 6:31pm CEST by mischl

hello all

on the official google maps there is a button on the top right with to
checkboxes for photos and wiki articles. can anyone explain how to
implement such a button?
looked through the code, but was not able to demistify it...

thanks a lot, mischl
Page Layout

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 6:07pm CEST by David

I am struggling as to how to get my page with my map included to
display properly.

What I want is 150 pixels at the top for text, followed by my map,
followed by 100 pixels at the bottom for more text. All three elements
are 100%.

I want all three elements to span 100% of the height of the page which
Code for Tabs

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 5:31pm CEST by shep

Hello,

I am interested in some help finding the code that is used for the
tabs that appear when you click on one of the icons within the Google
Doodlers Map found here: [link].

Thanks!
I have one site on two domains .com and .co.uk how to make API key work for both?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 4:46pm CEST by kinder

I have one site on two domains .com and .co.uk how to make API key
work for both?
Map working in FF, Safari and Opera. Not working in IE.

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 4:19pm CEST by isteo

My maps works fine in FF but with IE I can't see markers and maps
dimensions are wrong.
You can see on:

[link]

I searched solutions but I did not find.

Thank you very much everyone

Sorry for my english
Google maps on not for profit intranet

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 3:41pm CEST by Stevieg

Do you have to pay for a license on a not for profit intranet site? It
is a UK government site and I would like to set up a car sharing
scheme with Google maps. Is this possible without paying - otherwise
it'll be a no go.

Thanks.
Include function doesn't work for google api

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by Paul

I use the function below to include scripts in Javascript; it takes a
callback function which is called when the script is loaded. But when
I try to include the google api and then have a callback function that
calls google.load("maps", "2") the whole script hangs.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my script or perhaps what I
Using the API with multiple domains?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 3:02pm CEST by blirette

Hi,

I have a website that responds to multiple domains. Example :

[link]
[link]
[link]

All display the same Google Map. But I registered the key with
[link] so it gives me the warning that the key as been
used for another domain. Is there a way to use the key for multiple
Filling in the Area Inside Polylines

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 2:40pm CEST by Ryan Ward

Is there a way to create a set of lines as an outline and then simply
fill in the inside area? The example I have would be here: (only works
in FF)

[link]

Other than creating enough points to fill inside the box....
big KML file to load to Google Maps : maximum size ???

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 2:24pm CEST by thetoy

Hi everybody

I have a big kile containing polygons (so a lot of coordinates) - more
than 1Mb

Do you know if there's a file size limit ?

How can i do to test if all the datas of my kml file have been
loaded ?

Thanks a lot for any answers / suggestions
Finding locations by keyword without a marker table

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 2:19pm CEST by Ray75

Hello,
I've got my map application working great when plotting the
markers with lat,lng coordinates pulled from my database, but I'd like
to add the following feature.

If my stored procedure doesn't return coordinates I'd like to fire off
a search using a static keyword within 20 miles of the submitted zip
Question about Static Maps API

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 2:15pm CEST by Iván

Hello,

I have been testing the Static Map API and it works nice, but is there
anyway to create routes in a similar way as GDirections class using
the javascript API? I mean , is there at least one way of getting the
marker points of a route using the Google Static API? Is there another
alternative?
non maximized infowindow title

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 1:38pm CEST by Simone

Hi,

when you maximize an infowindow you get to have a title with grey
backg on top of the window.
Can I have the same kind of title with background on top of the NON
maximized infowindow?

Thanks
Simone
Map Not Working in FF, but works in IE

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 1:10pm CEST by Ryan Ward

I got some great help yesterday from you guys and was able to get the
map to work. However, I am unable to figure why it works in IE and not
in FF.

This is where the map is located:

[link]

I can post the code or you can view source. I just need it to work!
Will the Maps API work over SSL (HTTPS)?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 12:47pm CEST by webstorm rajesh

WE are using secure site , we are getting alert messsage non-secure
objects on the screen
New WoW Group

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 12:43pm CEST by coreygeer

New WoW Group
[link]

Come chat about World Of Warcraft or whatever is on your mind.
NO RULES! Just come in and chill!
Show InfoWindow programmatically

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 12:26pm CEST by Lorenz

Hi,

i bound an InfoWindow to a marker using bindInfoWindowHtml('...').
I want to show the bound InfoWindow on dragend (or any other
occasion).
How can i achieve this?
Terms of service issue

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 12:16pm CEST by David

I want to overlay a white DIV at the bottom of my map which expands
and contracts in height. However this will cover the copyright
information that I know I am not allowed to do.

Therefore are either/or of these two options suitable:

+ Place the required copyright information (as gathered by using
Google AJAX Search API

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:50am CEST by zoe.e3d@googlemail.com

I want to use the Google AJAX Search API to create a search on my map
[link] so that when a place name
is typed in it zooms in on that area showing the markers within that
area. I have the code from the documentation:

// Load the Code
<script src="[link]
Problème google map api key

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:29am CEST by EnishiY

Bonjour,

je suis actuellement en charge du développement d'un site web qui
dispose déjà un module de cartes google maps.

J'ai développé un module de calcul de coordonnées GPS qui se sert de
la carte google maps. Le module fonctionne sans aucun problème en
local mais lorsque je le met sur le site web, j'ai un problème de clé,
Can we display multiple KML files in a Google Map

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:23am CEST by newbie502

Hi,
Can I display multiple KML files in a Google Map?
ie., using GGeoXml can we load two kml files(kml1.kml, kml2.kml...)
in google map at a time?
Are we provided with this facility? or else please suggest other
methods
using which above can be achieved?
creating markers on map dragend

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 11:02am CEST by Manick

Hi,

The platform im using is ASP.Net c#,and my map is inside a user
control,what i am trying to do is load a few markers in the begining
and then create markers on the map dragend event,the first thing is
that this event is fired as soon as the map loads and does not wait
for any drag to happen or end is that the normal behaviour?
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Load GMap2 in local machine

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 9:29am CEST by Leonmex

Hi, i want to use de GMap in local machine, but the script send me the
next error error (the Google Maos API key used on this web site was
registered for a different wev site. Tou can generate a new key for
this web site at)

whant can i do?

tks.
how to incoporate any image inside the marker ?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 8:58am CEST by jit

hello
i have problem reagarding the marker, i am working on a business
listing site my client wants to show the business logo inside the
marker (not in htmlinfowindow).so is that possible to show the
business logo inside the marker ? if yes then please help me out
GeoCoder returns different data that Google Maps... + Language

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 8:44am CEST by saasheim

Hi...

I'm currently developing a Google Maps API application. When I search
for "os" in my application the GeoCoder returns (on 6. hit) just
Germany. If I do the same search in Google Maps I get "Osnabrück LK,
Germany".

Why does not the GeoCoder return "Osnabrück"?

Google Maps also return the search result in my language (not
How to minimize the Map control button and Type control button

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 8:40am CEST by Joy

Dear Google Map API Gurus,

I am newbie in the google map api technology. I have implemented the
google map in my local PC with the available document already
available in the internet. I have already implement the the "map
control" by adding

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
GoogleMap not display on LIVE site

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 7:37am CEST by Kakashi

Hi Guys,

I'm having a problem with google map display map on LIVE site, same
line of code works in staging site.

I have registered the api key for "[link]"
hoping it will work for
[link] --> worked
[link] --> didn't work

So i've re-registered the api key for [link] and
custom start/end markers

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 7:32am CEST by auditt

Alright,
I've tried to find the answer to this on the groups, searching the
Internet... and really, I haven't come across a simple and straight
forward answer.

Could someone please point me in the right direction so that I can
simply change the start and end markers when using polylines / driving
API in OSS web application

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 4:22am CEST by Will

Hello,

I am interested in using the Google Maps API in an OSS web application
(cavedb.sf.net). This is not a traditional web application in that it
is designed to be run as a single-user application running from
localhost, not on a publicly avaliable domain, although that may
happen. The API appears to require that I provide a web address for
MarkerManager and manipulating off-map markers

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 3:19am CEST by mykel

Hello all,

I'm working on a project dealing with roughly 500-1000 markers on a
map. I decided to let (the open) MarkerManager control the map, mostly
for the speed benefits (out of interest, anyone compared MM vs Non-MM
maps? I almost feel MM is no different).

Ive written a sidebar which shows the markers currently in the map
Limit to HTTP Requests for Driving Directions?

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 1:20am CEST by murlough23

I'm trying to figure out an efficient way to give a server-side
scripting language (in this case, ColdFusion, but it could just as
easily be PHP or anything else for purposes of this discussion) access
to the Driving Directions returned from Google Maps. I can use the API
to show the directions on a map and even load the written directions
Vertex markers for editable polylines

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 1:04am CEST by BobW

I've been playing with the new editing features of polylines -- which
is a great addition to the API.

The documentation describes properties for changing the color, width,
and opacity of the line, which works fine.

But the default vertex markers are a bit big for my liking (ie.
11x11px squares). Can I change the size of the vertex markers to
openInfoWindowTabsHtml - onClick Problem

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 12:24am CEST by peterschink

I have to modify the "onclick"-event in the InfoWindowTabsHTML. I just
want to add a little function on it, but it does not work yet.

You can see my map example here ---> [link]
The "tabby"-Tab (see code) is my problem...

Can anybody help?

Even this is not working: GInfoWindowTab(label,content,o nclick)

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