Sadly no - there is no v3 way to accomplish this. Primarily because maps.google.com is based on the v2 code.
Chad Killingsworth On Jun 6, 12:00 pm, Tom Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm the author of a v2 mapplet that overlays the Washington, DC > Metro system's routes on a map (source:http://dcist.com/map/mapplet.xml; > also present in the mapplet gallery). My initial non-mapplet release > predated the addition of transit stops to the underlying tiles. That > development made my project a bit redundant, but some users still enjoy > seeing the position of the lines at a variety of zoom levels -- it's > attractive, an interesting counterpoint to the stylized system map, and it > makes navigation a little easier -- so I converted my project to a mapplet. > > I've been away from the API for a bit, but have recently received some user > reports complaining that some subway lines fail to redraw properly after the > user enables the mapplet and performs a search. I've been able to recreate > this behavior, and concluded that the 'zoomend' event isn't firing in the > way it used to. Some more investigation revealed that v2 is deprecated, and > that the mapplet platform has been discontinued! > > Given the deprecation (and the seemingly flaky behavior of the scratch pad > mapplet), I'm not eager to simply fix my v2 code (though I could presumably > do so by hooking a few more event handlers to the redraw routine). > Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a clear way to add this sort of > overlay to the default maps.google.com functionality under v3. I understand > that I could reimplement the entire interface, hooking things up to the > relevant local search API(s). But I'm not eager to invest that much time to > rebuild and keep updated an interface that Google has already built. I'd > just like to augment that existing interface (I would be happy to do so at > my own domain). > > So: under v3, is there a simple way to add overlays to the default > maps.google.com interface? Any suggestions 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
