Chris, The behaviour seems to have changed in the past day or so. I'm now seeing the full complement of business icons by default.
Gary On Aug 21, 6:43 pm, Chris Broadfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > Can you provide a link to a map that demonstrates this? Or just a > latlng/zoom level so I can try it myself. > > Chris > > --http://twitter.com/broady > > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Gary Little <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... after some experimentation I've found that even after setting the > > visibility of poi.business labels to "off" I am seeing some clickable > > business icons. Setting it to "on" or "simplified" gives the more or > > less expected results. So perhaps the poi.business labels are still > > "off" by default in 3.6 and I'm seeing some clickable business icons > > because of a bug or ??? > > > On Aug 19, 7:36 am, Gary Little <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What are the criteria for determining which clickable business icons > > > are shown on the base map? In the downtown core of my town, only two > > > businesses are shown (both are pharmacies); there are no restaurants, > > > banks, grocery stories, coffee shops, etc. Not very useful. > > > > Gary > > > > On Aug 16, 6:53 pm, Chris Broadfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > We recently released a new minor version of the Maps API. This means > > that > > > > shortly, the versions of the Maps API will be: > > > > 3.6: Development/Nightly > > > > 3.5: Feature Stable > > > > 3.4: Frozen > > > > 3.3 will continue to exist for a short period of time, after which you > > will > > > > receive 3.4 when requesting 3.3. > > > > > ---- > > > > > In this release, we have added clickable business icons to the road > > map. > > > > This provides a consistent user experience between the Google Maps and > > the > > > > Maps API. > > > > > Another popular feature request was the ability to style hybrid and > > terrain > > > > map types. This is now possible via the "styles" option on MapOptions. > > When > > > > specifying styles in this way, they will be applied across all the > > default > > > > map types. This also makes it easier to create styled maps (no need to > > > > create a StyledMapType). > > > > > For more detail on these two new features, see the blog post here: > >http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/08/business-icons-and-st... > > > > > ---- > > > > > As noted previously, we recommend production applications specify a > > minor > > > > version (e.g. 3.4, 3.5). Though, please take the time to test your > > > > application against the nightly version (3.6) so that we can rectify > > any > > > > issues that may surface during your testing. > > > > > To see more information about versioning of the Maps API, see > > documentation: > >http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html... > > > > > The full changelog for the Maps API can be found here: > >http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/JavascriptMapsAPIv3Cha... > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > > > > --http://twitter.com/broady > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
