On Apr 21, 4:19 am, johntynan <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running into a slightly twisted knot of a question and I > thought I would run this past people in the group. > > I'm working on a "public radio roadtrip" app. I'm able to order > stories, then display them on a map with information bubbles, and > include > embedded audio within these bubbles. > > I was thinking that, now that I have the stories in an order > (either by date, or by a user-defined numerical order), that the > next useful step would be to display walking or driving directions > between these points. > > My first issue is that once the driving directions are displayed, > they overwrite the information bubbles with references to points A > and B, see: > > http://development.publicradioroadtrip.appspot.com/publicradioroadtri...
Actually they don't overwrite the bubbles, you just can't see or click on the original markers as the A and B markers are on top of them. Try setting the suppressMarkers option to the directionsRenderer to true. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#DirectionsRendererOptions -- Larry > > I wonder if the fact that the Google Maps API makes a call to an > external server, this secondary process overwrites the map as it > was rendered previously. > > The second issue that I'm wondering about is that, in order to > incrementally put together these different functionality on the > map, I wound up referencing a couple of different examples across > the web. > As a result, I wound up creating/using two different data types, > one a two dimensional array, the second, an associative array. > > I wonder if I used one array, that I would be able to display the > information bubbles while also displaying directions between the > points. > > I tried re-writing the earlier part of the code to use the > associative array. It's a bit of an undertaking to do this, and > I've found that it's a bit beyond my knowledge (although, I'm sure > if I worked at it long enough, I could do this. However, I don't > know that using one associative array would necessarily resolve the > issue of the information bubbles being overwritten. > > Any advice that you might have is appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
