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!
>>
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