Thanks Larry, I'll take a look at that.

On Mar 17, 5:07 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Mar 17, 1:41 pm, JGarrido <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Let me give you use case to better explain what I'm trying to do.
> > Let's say I'm attempting to plot out all of the Starbucks locations
> > throughout the country. Instead of having the clusters created
> > organically (ala MarkerClusterer), I'd like to have them clustered by
> > state - but I don't want to have to worry about manually adding them
> > individually based on the state they are in (forgetting for a moment
> > how simple this would be to do in the US - it's just an example).
>
> > I'm assuming I would first have to create the individual polygons
> > somehow using a list of lat/long coords to define each "state" (the
> > way you would create an image map in HTML, for example). How could I
> > easily have the marker be assigned to a state, based on its own lat/
> > long coords?
> > I can use GLatLngBounds to have it associated with a
> > rectangular boundary, but how about a polygon?
>
> Use Mike Williams' epoly extension:http://econym.org.uk/gmap/epoly.htm
>
> if (statePolygon.Contains(marker.getGLatLng())) { marker.myState =
> stateName; }
>
>   -- Larry
>
>
>
>
>
> >  - JG
>
> > On Mar 17, 4:13 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > On Mar 17, 12:09 pm, JGarrido <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I've looked at libraries like MarkerClusterer (http://gmaps-utility-
> > > > library-dev.googlecode.com/svn/tags/markerclusterer/), and it would
> > > > work great to have clusters created organically, but what I'm
> > > > currently attempting to do is create clusters based on specific
> > > > geographic areas (think states, countries, provinces, etc.).
>
> > > > Is anyone aware of a library that has the option to accomodate this?
> > > > If not, any ideas on how to enable a marker to 'be aware' of a
> > > > geographic region without having to manually assign it to one?
>
> > > You could "manually" do the clustering with the marker manager.  Put
> > > markers for the regions at low zoom levels, then once you reach the
> > > "local" zoom level, have it show the "local" markers.
>
> > > Like googles "office" 
> > > example:http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanager/r...
>
> > > I modified a version of it to work the way I would want it to 
> > > work:http://www.geocodezip.com/google_northamerica_officesJ.asphttp://www....
>
> > >   -- Larry- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

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