I made the edits to implement this feature but forgot that MarkerManager will actually place markers on the tiles outside of the viewport. Consequently, you'll get more markers/points than are visible to the end user. So I went with a different approach.
Best Regards, Steve On Jan 23, 6:47 am, Steve Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM, [email protected] <[email protected] > > > > > > > wrote: > > > On Jan 22, 6:06 pm, AgilityNerd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm looking to create a side bar for my map that displays a title and > > > link for each marker displayed within the map's current bounding box. > > > > It looks like MarkerManager will generate an event containing the new > > > bounding box and number of visible points upon zoom and pan. But I'd > > > rather not iterate through my markers find the ones that are within > > > the bounding box since MM just did it in order to update the display > > > and return the count. > > > > I was thinking of modifying a copy of the script to return the zoom > > > level and an array of visible markers and thought someone might have > > > already made that modification? It seems like a pretty useful > > > modification but maybe I'm not using the script in the manner in which > > > it was intended. > > > > Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. > > > Something like this? > > >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_frm/thread/649d... > > > -- Larry > > Larry, > > Thanks for the reply. But that's actually what I'm trying to avoid. I don't > want to requery my list of points for the ones that are visible within the > bounding box. MarkerManager has to go through the work of comparing all the > points at a given zoom level to determine which ones to add/remove overlay() > and if it were to return that list I could use each marker in the list as a > hash access to get the side bar info. It would allow all the work to be done > in the browser quickly for the < 100 visible points without having to hit > the server or redoing the bounding box calculation over 1000s of points. > > Thanks, > Steve- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
