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

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