Thanks very much to everyone.  I tried the CSS approach and its
working great.  Thanks Marc!  Let me know if you come up with any new
CrosShairS :)   Now I just need to get the lat/lon into my form from
the underlying map but I should be able to figure that out... unless
your crosshair code has any nuances I should know about.  I doubt it
since you aren't interacting with the map really(?)

Thanks again!

On May 3, 1:55 am, Marc Ridey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alternatively, look at this blog on keeping a cross in the center of the
> map:http://blog.mridey.com/2009/09/in-my-previous-post-i-showed-how-to.html
>
>
>
> 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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