On 19/03/2009, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Google provide a facitily via the Chart API to make this type of text as an image... http://groups.google.com/group/google-chart-api/web/chart-type-for-text-with-outline > > 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 > > > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
