Hm, that is interesting indeed. However, that would mean that I'd need
an event fired for every marker. But maybe there's another way of
getting to that object/information... It's weird that they (obviously)
have the information but don't expose it... Thanks!

On Nov 19, 11:47 pm, CroNiX <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is an undocumented marker property I was just playing with
> (pixelBounds), but it seems to be what you want...but its
> undocumented...so unofficial...ugh.  But the marker is supplying the
> correct properties but no "official" method to retrieve them.
>
> google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
>     var pb = this.pixelBounds;
>     var iconX = Math.abs(pb.l) + Math.abs(pb.q);
>     var iconY = Math.abs(pb.n) + Math.abs(pb.o);
>     alert('Width: ' + iconX + ', Height: ' + iconY);
>
> });
>
> On Nov 19, 2:18 pm, CroNiX <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is it the pixel coordinates you are after for the anchor location?
> > This might help.
>
> > var containerHelper = null;//set in global space
>
> > //call this somewhere in your map init function to create an overlay
> > that you can use to translate the coordinates
> > function init_helper_container(){
> >         containerHelper = null;
> >         containerHelper = new google.maps.OverlayView();
> >         containerHelper.setMap(map);
> >         containerHelper.draw = function () {
> >             if (!this.ready) {
> >                 this.ready = true;
> >                 google.maps.event.trigger(this, 'ready');
> >             }
> >         };
>
> > }
>
> > ...
>
> > google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
> >     var markerLoc =
> > containerHelper.getProjection().fromLatLngToContainerPixel(this.getPosition());
> >     alert('x=' + markerLoc.x + ', y=' + markerLoc.y);
>
> > });
>
> > On Nov 19, 12:26 pm, Peter van derZee<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm trying to port my marker cluster script (http://cm.qfox.nl) from
> > > v2 to v3 but it seems that's pretty much impossible because the api
> > > doesn't expose enough details.
>
> > > The biggest problem seems to be getting the actual size of the marker
> > > and the anchor of the marker. I've searched the group, but can't
> > > really find related posts (which was surprising to me).
>
> > > Basically I need to know precisely what area of the map is covered by
> > > a given marker in order to compare these regions to each other.
> > > However, there are is no api to give me this information.
>
> > > So this is what I have right now...
>
> > > An icon can be set by .setIcon* (or implicitly through the
> > > constructor, but I'm going to assume both ways lead to the same
> > > result). This method accepts a string or a MarkerImage*. The .getIcon
> > > method of a marker returns whatever you give it, it is not normalized
> > > (quite annoying). The .getShape method is not set implicitly, so it's
> > > useless in this case.
>
> > > Ok, so .getIcon returns a string (the url of the icon) or the
> > > MarkerImage. If it's the url, you can load it in an Image and get the
> > > width/height after it's loaded. Easy enough.
>
> > > If it returns the MarkerImage, things get hairy. That object should
> > > have a coords property. I checked, it's not set. It does have five
> > > properties. Four of them are scrambled by the minifiers, but their
> > > values clearly show that they are the properties as given in the
> > > constructor. The other one is obviously anchor, which is undocumented
> > > but also unscrambled (which is hardly coincidental). Maybe it's just
> > > missing from the documentation, who knows. Of the five properties, one
> > > is type string. Two are points and two are sizes. Since anchor is a
> > > point, you can also infer the origin, which is "point"less.
>
> > > So since I can get at least the url from MarkerImage, albeit through a
> > > hack, I can reasonably reliably get the size of the image used for the
> > > marker. It's not the end-goal, but at least it's something.
>
> > > So my question is, am I overlooking anything here? I'd like to get the
> > > anchor and final size of the image used for a marker when a
> > > MarkerImage is supplied for an icon, rather than a regular string. As
> > > it stands now, that seems impossible. Any help?
>
> > > But as it stands it seems impossible to create a generic cluster
> > > manager. You can make it safe for when .getIcon returns a string, but
> > > when it doesn't you're pretty much screwed.
>
> > > * 
> > > Marker:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.h...
> > > * 
> > > MarkerImage:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.h...

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