On Feb 1, 3:43 pm, isisdave <[email protected]> wrote: > When I first started developing for Google Maps over a year ago, > terrain/physical maps did not display labels (place names, etc.), at > least as I used them. Then, last fall, probably coincident with the > enhancements released then, I suddenly noticed labels appearing. I > didn't care for that as they are irrelevant for my application and > just clutter things up. > > More recently, maybe a couple of weeks ago, the labels disappeared > again ... nearly. For example, the dashed lines that reach from the > smaller US states out to the point in the ocean where the state name > or abbreviation should appear were there, but no text. I can't > remember if they were there before last fall. > > Now, perhaps since yesterday, text is back. > > I have searched the docs and do not find anything about the text being > optional. In fact, searching this group reveals several assertions > that "the tiles are the tiles", that they're images, and that's that. > Still, this behavior reminds me of uninitialized variable problems. > The zoom level doesn't matter ... when the text is/was there, it's > there at all zoom levels (and of course you get more labels on higher > zoom levels), and when it wasn't, there wasn't any text at any zoom > level. > > site:www.propnet.org/catch3.php > > and the javascript is inwww.propnet.org/catch.js > > The zoom level for the default map is 4, but that didn't seem to > matter. My usual browser is Firefox 3.5.7, and I cannot assert that IE > tracks the text/no text behavior as I rarely use it. OS is XP SP3. > > Any ideas? In fact, can anyone confirm that I didn't imagine all this? > If labels are suppressible, I would like to do that. Thanks.
You might try investigating the tiles referred to in this post: http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/browse_frm/thread/e9b2d44c60f08080/d2a40310d10f595e -- Larry -- 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.
