I am working on a walking tour for a museum in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the US. We have gotten some State and Federal grant money to create a walking tour of the town that will show points of interest of African-American history.
With Mike William's awesome site on the v2 API, I've created a prototype map. You can see it on our testing server here: http://centuries.digitalgizmo.com/team/walkingtour/afram_walkingtour/maptour_kml.html Some points of interest here are the use of an external xml file for the right-hand sidebar, the kml overlay, and the limits to the zoom and boundaries. All very good stuff. But we are faced with the limits of what we can do, and thinking it is related to the v2 of the API. Specifically, we'd really, really want the GPS functionality (the blue 'you are here' dot). Plus, v3 is optimized for mobile devices. We are also concerned that v2 will go away, and leave us in the lurch. We will be purchasing iPads to loan out for the tour. Things we've tried include creating a map in the new mobile version of maps.google.com, Google Earth, and an app called KMLmapHD. But for various reasons, none of these interfaces fit the bill. We keep coming back to the maptour_kml.html map I created. We just need the blue dot! MY question is this: Can I get the GPS functionality (blue dot) using the v3 API? Secondly is there a site that that gives simple instructions? I am not a javascript programmer, and found Mike Williams' site invaluable. We do have a javascript programmer at our disposal, but we can only afford to put him on the case if we know that this can be done. (He would have to spend time/money researching). All the web research seems to indicate that you can't do all the things in v3 that you could do in v2. Thanks! -- 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.
