On Nov 25, 2:18 pm, Steve the Canuck <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just trying to do something pretty simple. I am grabbing a bunch > of locations from a database and placing them on a map. One of the > locations is a reference point (eg: a postal or zip code). I'd like > the marker for the reference location to be different than the others. > > I notice that by default I get a little red placemark marker for my > locations. Is there a way to just tell the marker to be a different > color?
Yes. It is referred to as a custom icon (or a custom marker): >From Mike Williams' tutorial: Part 9 Making your own custom markers. http://econym.org.uk/gmap/custom.htm > > I can see the markers are being placed in my documents like this: > > marker = new google.maps.Marker(new google.maps.LatLng > (43.6618,-79.3798));google.maps.Event.addListener > (marker,"click",function(){this.openInfoWindowHtml('<b>Maple Leaf > Gardens</b><br/>\n60 Carlton St.<br/>\nToronto, ON<br/> > \nCanada')});map.addOverlay(marker); > > I'd just like to get an idea of how that code would look different in > order to declare a marker a different color. I'm actually not > outputting the Google API code directly, I'm using a plugin. Then maybe you will need to investigate whether or not the plugin handles custom markers or not. -- Larry > > Btw, I did a search on this topic and the only similar post I found > was about 2 years old and the API objects have changed a lot since > then. > > Thanks, > Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
