That's also something that I've been playing around with. I think we'd probably try to fit this into one of our existing roles, maybe the style role or something, rather than creating a new role for it. We try to minimize creating new roles whenever possible.
- Sergey On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:45 AM, asgallant <[email protected]>wrote: > Create an "icon" column role (or something similar), and you don't have to > make users specify the location description column. > > > On Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:32:59 AM UTC-4, Sergey wrote: > >> The first option isn't really feasible, as the Map visualization uses >> Google Maps, which uses images for its markers, so you can't arbitrarily >> control their colors. >> >> The second option is much like what I was thinking, but it's a little >> annoying in that you would *have to* specify the location description >> column in order to customize markers, which is not ideal. That said, this >> is likely what we'll go with. >> >> - Sergey >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Romain Vialard <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> In Geo charts you have colorAxis.colors that let you set an array of >>> color strings. >>> >>> Something similar would be a good start, to have something like this, >>> but with a Maps chart: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/scriptsexamples/available-web- >>> apps/awesome-tables/geochart >>> >>> Something even better would be to add a new column in the Data Format, >>> to indicate the icon you want to use for each point: >>> >>> - first two columns should be numbers designating the latitude and >>> longitude >>> - An optional third column holds a string that describes the >>> location specified in the first two columns. >>> - *An optional fourth column holds a string that indicates the icon >>> to display* >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google Visualization API" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ >>> group/google-visualization-api. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Visualization API" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
