Check out this demo: http://maps.forum.nu/gm_mouse_dist_to_line.html
It doesn't use the GPolyline's mouseover event. Instead, it calculates the distance in the GMap2 mousemove event. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Jan 29, 1:39 pm, Paulo JF Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) I don't want accurate GIS, just a consistent UI experience. Right > now, if you have several polylines and want to change the cursor on > mouseover, for example, the UI is very, very bad, because of the > problem I described. > > 2) The click approach seems to be about right, the onmouseover is a > different beast. From my understanding, a diagonal line results in a > big rectangle that triggers mouseover. > > On Jan 28, 9:00 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > In my experiments it seems that, because the line is diagonal, the way > > > that mouseover/out are triggered isn't pixel perfect but instead uses > > > a rectangle bound of the polyline. (I have mouseOutTolerance:1) > > > You're right, it is an approximation. > > This old > > bloghttp://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/09/v288-clickable-polylines-po... > > explains how they do it for clicks (and presumably since then, use the > > same method for mouseover) > > > > Isn't there a way to achieve what I want but be pixel perfect to the > > > line? > > > Not with the API. It's just a general purpose map display, not a full > > blown millimetre-accurate GIS. -- 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.
