> I can photo shop a marker and make it smaller. If you like. Or you can use whatever size image you like and instruct the API to display it at some other size by using the size option in MarkerImage.
> How can I make all the other controls like zoom > smaller too. You would have to make custom versions of whatever controls you wanted. This will me more complex than custom markers. But you must not tinker with Google's logo or the copyright text. > I appears that once you make the total size of the map > less than about 300~400 px square the markers, icons, popup boxes, > controls and map style control box to big to fit on small map profile. Yes. Not may people need that much functionality on a thumbnail map. > Why isnt there a zoom feature that sets all these item with one code > command. Possibly no-one else wants it ; possibly no-ones ever asked for it. You can lodge feature requests at http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list > This business of having to manipulate each item to set its > size is complex and for me a novice, impossible. No-one said the maps API is for novices. The docs at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html says "This documentation is designed for people familiar with JavaScript programming and object-oriented programming concepts." but that needn't stop you learning! In the meantime you have to balance ambition against capability. -- 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.
