Probably not the best way, but should give you some idea as to what's needed:
http://notebook.kulchenko.com/maps/gridmark I'm using canvas elements, whereas google is using images, but other than that, calculations should be very similar. I only implemented mouseover event, but mouseclick will only differ in one or two lines. No markers created, so it should be fast even for a large number of "markers" (I tested with 30k on the screen and with 15k on one tile). I also implemented a different approach here: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/maps/datamark This one generates real markers, but only for those tiles that are displayed, so if you have a large number of well distributed markers it may work for you. This one handles all events that regular markers have (wait for the map to load all the markers). I'm not aware of the existing API for this. Paul (http://notebook.kulchenko.com/maps) On Dec 2, 3:32 pm, Gerry <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm to use implement "Tiny Clickable Markers" aka Pimples as used on > Google Local Search > (http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pizza+ne... > ) and as discussed in the Google I/O 2009 - Performance Tips for Geo > API Mashups video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8at1EmJjAat > 26:29 ). > > The problem is I haven't been able to find an API or even a tutorial > for this. I don't want to recode a bad version of something that is > already available so I'm just wondering if Google has released an API > for this or if anybody knows of any information available on the best > way to implement this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks for reading :) > > Gerry -- 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.
