On Oct 26, 3:20 am, HelloGmaps <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This may not be possible, but I am trying to find a way of dragging an > image of a marker (from outside a map) onto a map, and when it "drops" it > would create a marker on the map.
Have you seen this example: http://www.wolfpil.de/v3/drag-from-outside.html >From this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_frm/thread/ee85aeb374f961cc/f31a426bb62b1545?lnk=gst&q=Pil+marker#f31a426bb62b1545 -- Larry > > This is the site where we are trying to develop that > function:https://streetviolencemap.org/ > > The current solution we have means that the user has to select the green > marker (when active, it has a red bounding box), and then click on the map > to create a pin. > > The reason we are trying to improve on this is because a large number of > our users instinctively try to drag and drop the green marker, and we would > like to make the site (and especially this function) as easy as possible to > use. > > Many thanks for reading this post, > > Adam -- 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.
