Hey. I have been on before about designing a map for a hospital. I have now 99% completed it.
The link is currently at the following location to the map only, without real site templates. http://www.tymonrovers.com/attachments/Patrick/IMap/map.html Here is a snippet of the XML.... (1 Department) <markers> <marker name="Abraham Colles" pic='<center><img src="http:// www.tymonrovers.com/attachments/Patrick/IMap/resize/con.jpg" <br><a href="http://www.stjames.ie/internetnew/Departments/ WardsA-Z/A/AbrahamColles/" target="blank" ><center>View Ward Information </a><center> ' lat="53.33868" lng="-6.29593" category="colles" /> </markers> So when you open the link, you may only have access to this department, from my dropdown list. The department is called Colles and is the first one from the drop down. OK so here is my problems that I need help with. I hope you can help. Bear in mind that I am using an overlay on top of my map, which contains each building within the hospital. 1). When I zoom out of my map, the image becomes out of sync with the rest of the map, but when at level 17 (highest zoom), the map is perfectly aligned to all roads. 2). The map overall seems to load very slow. Sometimes it can be about 40-50 seconds loading the map page. I seem to notice it is faster with firefox but still, i would like it to load immediate or as close as. I noticed on other sites with google maps, that this is happening also to others. The image used in overlay is <- 200kb so it seems to be delayed from google servers maybe? I see the egg timer appear sometimes also while waiting and screen freezes while waiting on map to load until it eventually loads. 3). When map loads, I always get the original google maps version of the hospital and a few seconds later, my overlay map will kick in and replace the google version. Is there a way, that when I load the map page, that googles horrible orangey / pink colour version of the hospital map, will not load for people to see. 4). When I click satellite view on my map, this loads as it should, but my overlay is still there blocking the satellite view of the hospital. Is there a way that when users click satellite, that my image could dissapear and the satellite should load as per usual. 5) The last few days in IE only, both versions 6 and 7, I noticed that I am getting an error message (yellow triangle bottom left) saying GControl Undefined but when I do a refresh everything is fine. Firefox is perfect. However, i do not want this happening at all. Looks ridiculous. When I check the code, it always brings me the line "If browser is compatible ()". I see on google that many people have put this up as a problem, but i did not see solutions. It happens when cache has been full and empty. 6). On the hospital site, there is a script to print the map only (overlay image). The map does print, but it prints googles version of the map and it does not print my overlay, which defeats the purpose of been able to print the map. Any help would be appreciated. I hope they are simple fixes. Also, if anyone has any recommendations for the map, that would be great. Code needs a cleanup. Map goes live next week with new website. I am hosting this on a different server for now. Thanks again. Patrick. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
