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  InfoWindow empty

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:57pm CEST by javamon

  map.openInfoWindow(map.getCent er(), document.createTextNode('Hello '));
  

  The info window pops up but I don't see any text.
  

  This used to work. What's up?

• 

  Change default icon of Polyline editing mode

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:33pm CEST by Pepe

  I'm making a map for drawing Polylines like:
  

  [link]
  

  When I enable the Polilye editing:
  

  line.enableEditing({onEvent: "mouseover"});
  

  Is possible to change the default icon?
  Default icon is no precise.
  

  Thanks a lot.

• 

  FYI: I will be posting in a new timezone for 6 months

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:14pm CEST by pamela (Google Employee)

  Hey everyone-
  

  I thought I should let you know that I'm spending 6 months away from
  America - a month in Asia and then 5 months in Australia. Here's a map
  that shows my travels, just to make this post API related:
  [link]

• 

  A little help with: polylines, color change, and mouse pointer/hand cursor

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 10:55pm CEST by kendawson

  Hi All,
  

  Any help with this would be appreciated.
  

  I will provide two example links.
  

  When you mouse over the polyline at this link, the polyline changes
  color and then changes back again when you mouse out.
  

  This is great, but do you notice how if you do it at normal speed the
  cursor hand flickers to the “pointer hand” and then changes back to

• 

  draw polygons

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 10:22pm CEST by Bunny

  I'm new to Google API . I'm trying to draw polygons so that i can map
  all the buildings that are they on the map but am clueless to do so,
  how can i get latlng points of that particular building and draw
  polygon?
• 

  openInfoWindowHtml

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 9:58pm CEST by gm

  how to display
  pictures on each marker after gpx route/track animation
  on click or mouse over
  url= [link]
  xml= [link]
  

  only the last marker shows what should be an [i] description for all

• 

  Map image not showing up

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 8:58pm CEST by Jeff

  I have a problem and I cannot figure it out.
  

  On the page [link], I am able to
  get the map and directions to load fine.
  

  After copying everything over to this page, [link]
  , the script for directions loads, but the map refuses to show up.

• 

  Info Window Formatting in XML

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 8:47pm CEST by patrick

  Ok, so I am working on a volunteer project for the American Cancer
  Society to display their fundraising walks in the state of South
  Carolina. There are a lot of events and a lot of markers so I was
  trying to speed up the page load by using XML. Using Mike William's
  great XML file, I have it loading up pretty fast but I am running into
• 

  infoWindowTab Sytle

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:46pm CEST by moos3

  Ok I can't figure out how to fix width my information window. due to
  the size of the content area no being correct. Can anyone help me with
  this
  

  [link] thanks.

• 

  Map is correct in Firefox, but is offset and incorrect in Internet Explorer.

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:28pm CEST by Corey Mac

  The map I've been using worked for a while in all browsers, but
  recently appears offset incorrectly in IE (it still appears and
  functions correctly in FF). Is there anyone here who could take a
  look at the code/page and help me figure out where I've mis-coded this
  thing?
  

  [link]

• 

  how to automaticaly hide infowindow

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:53pm CEST by JpatOsaure

  Hi,
  

  I come to you because i'm looking for a response to my 'little'
  problem...
  

  I use a overlay as follow:
  

  geoXml = new google.maps.GeoXml("myurl.kml" );
  map.addOverlay(geoXml);
  

  I want to put an ID in my kml file, but i do not want the infowindow
  to display this
  I would like no infowindow on this Overlay.

• 

  Snap To Street From XML

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:39pm CEST by Mini0n

  Hi there!
  

  I'm trying to get some coordinates from a database, insert them into a
  XML file and them show them on the map, snapped to the nearest road.
  

  The thing is I am having problems because the asynchronous thing.
  

  What's the best option to avoid/step over it?
  

  I read setTimeout is not the best choice, but even that I'm unable to

• 

  Custom icons with GMAP2

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:07pm CEST by bongii

  How can I modify this example so it´s possible for me to change the
  icons to my own customize icons?
  

  [link]
  

  F.eks: I´m making a Route between 4 shops and want the icons to be the
  shops logos.
  

  Is it possible?

• 

  Toggle Labels AFTER radius search

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 2:11pm CEST by Jensen

  Hello all,
  

  first of all - I am a complete newbie to all of this, so probably I am
  making a mistake that seems ridiculous to most of you.
  

  However: here is my problem:
  

  I want to create a page where users can enter their zip code to focus
  on a certain region and toggle on / off individually coloured groups

• 

  How to make graphs from gmaps information

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 1:40pm CEST by Cássio Felipe

  What i want is to build a graph in witch each crossroad is a node and
  each edge is a road that link 2 nodes.
  Is it possible? How can i do it?
  The main object is to test some shortest path algorithms.
  

  thank you all.

• 

  problem with driving directions print

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 1:29pm CEST by srilatha

  Hi,
  I am new to this Google maps integration, i have one problem with
  driving directions map.
  When printing (or print-previewing) driving directions, instead of my
  new images it is printing default images in the map. i used
  marker.setImage(), can you pleas help me.
  

  Thanks..

• 

  Extracting a div defined as CDATA in KML, using javascript?

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:24pm CEST by debaser

  Hi all,
  

  I have a KML file which defines a description used for the infoWindow.
  The description tag contains CDATA which defines a div to be used to
  display in the infoWindow, e.g.:
  

  <Placemark>
  ...
  <description><![CDATA[
  <div style="font-size:9pt;font-fami ly:trebuchet
  MS,verdana,sans;margin-top:2px ;margin-left:2px;line-height:9 pt;">

• 

  define own region at google map

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:37am CEST by Illusionicea

  Hi All,
  

  I had look around google to find a better way to define own region at
  map.
  Do you guys have any idea to do that on google map which I can define
  the region on the map and get the longitude and latitude for the whole
  region which later I can show the polygon over the google map?
  

  Appreciate for the help. Thank you.

• 

  addOverlay causing problems

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:32am CEST by Daniish

  Hello,
  

  My site has been up and running without problems for the past few
  weeks, but last night (despite not making any changes to the source
  code) Firebug started to report the following:
  

  handleErrors is not defined
  [link]
  Line 288
  

  When i comment out addOverlay as defined in the function

• 

  getting walking directions to work

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 10:39am CEST by Gauri

  Hi all,
  

  I'm trying to get walking directions working. I set travel mode to
  walking with the following line of code:
  

  gdir.load("from: " + fromAddress + " to: " + toAddress, "en_AU",
  G_TRAVEL_MODE_WALKING);
  

  and have given the Gdirections constructor a <div> element called
  "directions"
  gdir = new GDirections(map, document.getElementById("direc tions"));

• 

  Is this a KML Bug in Google Chrome / Safari?

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 10:18am CEST by wwarby

  I was just testing a Google Maps application I'm writing for cross-
  browser compatibility when I noticed this very uncool rendering
  problem in WebKit browsers: [link].
  

  It's a KML layer with two polygons, both have an innerBoundary and
  outerBoundary to create a cut-out effect. The idea is to dim the area

• 

  Width/height of maximized Infowindow

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:41am CEST by marcin

  Hi developers!
  Is it possible to set a smaller width/height for a maximized
  InfoWindow? I searched group and API and did not find the answer. I
  create Infowindow using maxTitle and maxContent properties.
  

  Marcin

• 

  Límites geográficos provinciales, división política.

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:11am CEST by carlos.giambrone@gmail.com

  Para empezar, MUCHÍSIMAS gracias a todos los que me ayudaron en mi
  anterior consulta, especialmente a WILLIAM, quien con apenas tres
  palabras me hizo notar donde estaba mi error.
  

  Ahora bien, tengo otra pequeña consulta adicional:
  

  ¿Cómo puedo hacer en Google Maps (dentro de mi página Web) para que

• 

  Buttons in InfoWindow in Mapplets

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:37am CEST by vvilyin

  I want to use button in InfoWindow in Mapplet.
  That is for saving additional info from InfoWindows.
  

  But it does not work.
  ////////////////////////////// /////////
  var map = new GMap2();
  var marker = new GMarker(new GLatLng(56,37));
  map.addOverlay(marker);
  var mess = "It works";
  marker.openInfoWindow("<input type='button' value='Test'

• 

  map in infowindow

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:26am CEST by Travis Jones

  I am trying to create a map inside an infowindow. I have found a
  sample from an other post that works here:
  

  [link]
  

  but I am not having any luck getting a modified version to work
  properly. The map2 div that I am trying to create in the infowindow
  seems like it is not being created when openInfoWindowHTML is called.

• 

  Zoom to look all markers

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:04am CEST by tiagao.bm@gmail.com

  Hi;
  

  I need view all the markers created on the map on the same time...
  

  There's a function that returns de bounds of the farest markers?
  With that information, how can I calc the center and the zoom level to
  make sure that
  all markers will be visible at the same time?
  

  Thanks in advance
  Tiago

• 

  Want to openInfoWindow on mouseover (not on marker)

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:37am CEST by John

  Hello.
  

  I have a site where I am using PHP/MySQL to create an xml file with
  point data. Then I load the xml file using GDownloadURL. I followed
  the example in the article by Pamela Fox, "Using PHP/MySQL with Google
  Maps". It's a work in progress, but works great so far.
  

  Here is a link to the page:

• 

  Geocoding en aplicacion php

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 1:18am CEST by murkein

  Hola a todos, siguiendo el ejemplo de geocoding simple de google map,
  intente de hacerlo en una aplicacion php pero cuando agrego el
  siguiente formulario:
  

  <form action="#" onsubmit="showAddress(this.add ress.value); return
  false">
  <p>
  <input type="text" size="60" name="address" value="1600

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  Geocoding

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:22am CEST by murkein

  Si yo estoy buscando el nombre de una ciudad, ejemplo: "Bella vista" y
  este nombre esta en varias partes del mundo, como puedo saber cual es
  el que yo estoy buscando en realidad? como descartar los otros nombres
  y obtener la latitud y longitud del que me interesa?
• 

  pagina del clima

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:18am CEST by murkein

  Hola, actualmente tengo una api en mi pagina web que me da el clima,
  quiero saber si los datos que se actualizan con esta api, los puedo
  manipular para de alguna forma, generar marcadores de tipo climas y
  que sean de acuerdo al clima actual
• 

  Geocoding en Venezuela

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:13am CEST by murkein

  Hola, quiero saber como puedo hacer para buscar una direccion solo en
  el pais de venezuela.
• 

  mapplet: kml overlay not showing up

  Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:10am CEST by jakemiles

  Hello. Please help, I have a deadline tonight. I'm trying to overlay
  the sample KML that Google includes in their tutorial, onto a mapplet
  (not just the maps api, a mapplet), and it doesn't show up. This is
  the code:
  

  var kml = new GGeoXml(kmlUrl);
  document.getElementById("messa ge").innerHTML = 'got kml ' +