I can't tell you how to do drag from outside the marker but this example: gis.zgroks.com/rw2.html, lets the user right click on the map, then click on the marker they created to assign it to a category. Maybe it's too complicated for the users but it is one solution. Saves to a SQL database and could be adapted to a similar purpose as the site you're building. - Bob
On Oct 26, 2:04 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/threa... > > -- 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.
