On Sep 11, 9:51 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 3:40 am, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.yohman.com/students/ricardo/survey3.html > > > I am working on a survey that incorporates a map for reference. The user > > votes for streets from a drop down list. I would like the map to zoom to and > > either highlight the polyline for the selected street, drop a marker on it, > > or only display that polyline on the map. The goal is to give a user a > > visual reference of the to/from limits of the street they are selecting. > > What is the best approach to accomplish this? > > It can't be done directly with either KmlLayer or FusionTablesLayer > (at least currently).
Another option: you might be able to use FusionTablesLayer "dynamic" styling to highlight the line. -- Larry > > > > > The drop down list was entered using HTML. I have seen similar examples > > http://www.advocacy.ucla.edu/Maps/Assembly_map.html > > > using fusion tables. Am i better off using this approach? > > Depends on what you are comfortable with. That map uses the geoxml3 > extension to google maps. > Your kml is fairly complex (lots of small polylines), so you probably > want to use either KmlLayer or FusionTablesLayer to display it, then > implement the highlighting/zoom to functionality using geoxml3. > > http://www.geocodezip.com/geoxml3_test/v3_geoxml3_kmltest_linktoB.htm... > > http://www.geocodezip.com/geoxml3_test/v3_geoxml3_kmltest_linktoB.htm... > > > If this approach is better, how can I convert my KML into a visualized > > fusion table that keeps the same color > > formatting? > > I don't know of any way. You might vote for this enhancement > request:http://code.google.com/p/fusion-tables/issues/detail?id=594 > > The only way I know to do it is to create a column and use that to > style the polylines, given that the styling already exists in your > kml, it would be really nice if you could import that with your kml. > > -- Larry > > > > > > > > > > > Thank You -- 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.
