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2009/3/12 Akis <[email protected]> > > I have a tough assignment, and I am starting to figure out how to pull > all this together. ANY help will be much appreciated! > > The client is a real estate website, and they want a map view of the > listings found in the search results. Sounds easy, but since the > results can be in the thousands, it's not really possible to simple > dump all the points on a map, no matter how big you make it. > > So, they want an overlay made up of 9 equal-sized rectangles to go on > top of the map with a small font text somewhere inside each area > indicating how many points (property listings) have been found under > that region (just like Realtor.com has done with their map view). Each > rectangle will then have a click event which will zoom in that > specific area one level down. And of course, upon zooming in/out or > moving the map, the overlay will be redrawn and data from the server > will be added by AJAX. > > I have been trying to find an example like mine, but I am not that > lucky. Anyone know of one? This has a lot of stuff which I don't know > how to do. My main concern/difficulties are: > 1) How do I create those 9 equal sized rectangles on my map with just > their borders showing? > 2) How do I get the count of items found within each boundary? > > > -- Bjorn Brala ---------------- GeoStart.nl- Google maps - Swis Webdesign --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
