The problem is that you don't know beforehand whether your text is going to be in front of a light or dark background, so whether you choose black or white text it might end up being hard to see against a similarly coloured background.
What Google do is add an outline to the text in the opposite colour. Black letters with a white outline for the street tiles. White letters with a black outline for hybrid tiles. Unfortunately, there's no facility within HTML or Javascript for displaying text like that. You could display text against a HTML background colour: http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_elabel.htm Or you could create outlined text as a PNG or GIF image. There's a Flash utility called Sifr that might be able to do it, but many people run with Flash disabled, and Sifr is said to be difficult to use. -- http://econym.org.uk/gmap The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
