On Apr 21, 9:45 am, Robert Knieriem <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have not found an example of what I am trying to do anywhere on the web
> yet and would like to get some general feedback on how feasible it will be
> to do with google maps.  I want to show a map of the US with all of the
> states individually colored as their own polygons.  Then when a state
> polygon is clicked, zoom in to show that state and then all of the 3 digit
> zipcodes in the state are their own polygons.  Then click a 3 digit zip
> polygon and it zooms in and shows the 5 digit zipcodes.  At the 5 digit
> zipcode level I don't need them to be clickable polygons.  Also, at each
> level I want to be able to display a count of how many points I have in each
> polygon.  The point count I can calculate seperately and just feed google a
> number to display in the center of the polygon.
>
> If I need to I can remove some of the vertices from the polygons for
> performance reasons.  The polygons do not need to be exact, just close.
>
> Is an image overlay of some type better for this, and if so, how would I
> control the bounds when zooming in without using the vertices of the polygon
> as the bounds.
>
> Thanks for any feedback and direction you can provide me.

This example using FusionTablesLayers is a proof of concept of some of
your functionality:
http://www.geocodezip.com/geoxml3_test/v3_FusionTables_CountryBrowser.html?country=United%20States%20of%20America

if you click on the "show" link on the right, it will zoom in to show
that state.

  -- Larry

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