The "title" and "snippet" seem to be there for this purpose. I tried
to find out about that, but nothing was mentioned in the docs. I
guess, these haven't been implemented yet.

Thanks and Regards,
Kumar Bibek

On Jan 7, 6:18 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, no, I don't think there's a "built-in" method of doing this
> (sure does make you wonder why they bothered with the "title" and "snippet"
> options, don't it?)
>
> However, this is asked alot. Search this group and the developer group for
> "map balloon" or "map popup" or something along those lines and you might
> some useful information.
>
> The basic idea is to add your own view that contains a text view (or
> whatever you want) to the MapView you have using the MapView.LayoutParams -
> that lets you place any view at a specific geo-location on the map.
>
> Hope that helps some.
>
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> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Becca <rsquaredcreati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to add a label to each of the points on a map that I've
> > created.  Setting the "title" and "snippet" values of the OverlayItem
> > don't seem to automatically cause these labels to appear however.  I
> > would've thought this would be a pretty simple and common
> > requirement...  Am I missing something?  Can someone tell me if
> > there's a function that does this?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
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