Hey Andrew- Thanks, that has come up a few times, and SV filed a request. Please star it: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1637
If there is enough concern about the verbosity of the parameters, we can introduce short versions of each of them. There is a balance between URL length and API usability, but it is certainly possible to offer aliases of parameters. - pamela On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Leach<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 5:08 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> We have now launched a version 2 of the Static Maps API, and >> deprecated version 1 of the API. The new version introduces several >> new features (encoded paths, filled polys, geocoding, hexadecimal >> colors), and also fixes various issues. Please see the changelog for >> more detailed >> information:http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/StaticMapsAPIChangelog > > I'm sorry that I seem to post first with a potential problem on many > of these change notices. > > While it's good that encoded polys are supported, as that will help > include lines and polygons within the browser's limit on GET requests, > how does something like the following (from the documentation) help > with that? >>> > For example: > midreda > becomes: > size:mid|color:red|label:A > << > I appreciate that separating properties of a marker in such a way will > make it easier to build markers server-side and add them to the map > image; but it hardly helps with the length of the URL. > > I'll raise an enhancement request, but I think that > size:mid|color:red|label:A > could be implemented with abbreviated property names > s:mid|c:red|l:A > or even make property names optional so that if they are not specified > the order is used: > mid|red|A > which is still two characters longer than the v1 request. > > Andrew > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
