Consider inserting a centered cross hair image into the map div. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:16 AM, mlvfd <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. This worked although the marker flutters quite a bit. Would > it be possible to, once someone started to drag the underlying map, to > "detach" the marker from the map and then, at "dragend" place it where > it lies, still in the middle of the canvas? Or a simple transparent > circle overlay which did the same thing e.g. stayed "in front" of the > map as it moved underneath. I'm trying to give people a "target/cross- > hairs" to capture lat/long so I'm not going to actually "attach" the > marker to the map until later on. Hopefully that makes sense... I'll > keep playing with the binding but it didn't work on the iphone which > is the ultimate target device. Any other thoughts would be > welcomed... thanks again! > > On Apr 29, 12:58 pm, Luke Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The best solution is to use MVC techniques to bind the marker's position >> property to the map's center property: >> >> var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ >> map: map >> >> }); >> >> marker.bindTo('position', map, 'center'); >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> - Luke >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:20 AM, mlvfd <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The example at Google (http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-samples-v3/ >> > source/browse/trunk/draggable-markers/draggable-markers.html? >> > spec=svn49&r=49) does almost exactly what I need. However, ror my >> > application I would like the marker to stay right in the middle of the >> > map (never moving). The user would drag the map underneath the marker >> > to the "target" location. Then the listener would get the lat/lon for >> > the marker once the drag was completed. Any help would be appreciated! >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> >> > . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> >http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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 >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en. > >
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