IMO it would be useful to be able to restyle the features without necessarily restyling the underlying terrain. For example, in my case, all I need is the base imagery, with everything else (particularly place names) removed. I imagine this is just one example of how such a feature may be useful.
On May 31, 6:02 pm, "Thor (Google Employee)" <thor.mitch...@gmail.com> wrote: > We don't currently support styling other map types, because we can not > recolour the base imagery right now, which for hybrid is the satellite > photos, and for terrain is the green/grey elevation map. Would it be > useful to be able to restyle the features on terrain (eg. the roads) > without styling the terrain beneath? My gut feeling is that this would > just confuse and disappoint the majority of users, who would expect > the whole map to be desaturated or colorized for example. > > Many thanks, > > Thor. > > On May 31, 4:47 pm, Sai Perchard <cont...@saitech.com.au> wrote: > > > > > My aim is to remove the location names from the terrain view, so it's > > just a plain terrain map without any placemarkers. Essentially I just > > need to render the terrain view sans location names. > > > On May 31, 4:33 am, Mike Swope <msw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've thought about this a little, but havent looked into it. One idea, > > > that > > > I'm going to investigate, is to load the terrain layer, and the styled > > > layer > > > on top if you just want to style roads on top of the terrain layer, and > > > make > > > all the polygons (areas) 100% transparent, and just style the lines how > > > you > > > wish. Is this even doable? I've seen some sites overlay the roads layer > > > from > > > the imagery on top of a map layer, which is what I was going to do, but > > > styling the roads the way I want is a thought I'm going to look into. > > > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Sai Perchard > > > <cont...@saitech.com.au>wrote: > > > > > I'm encountering the same problem. Any advice would be greatly > > > > appreciated! > > > > > On May 30, 3:52 pm, mp- <miche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I just discovered the new v3 Styled Maps functionality. > > > > > >http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/05/add-touch-of-style-to... > > > > > > However, I'm confused. Can I only style the default map type (ROAD). > > > > > > I'd really like to style theTERRAINmap type but am not certain how > > > > > to do so. > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-maps-js-api-v3%2B > > > > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > . > > > > 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 google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
