David,
What do you think about adding the Google Earth plugin button as a map
view settings? Yes, I know it's another setting but I don't think
that's necessarily bad.
Seems like a simple edit in Exhibit.MapView.prototype._constructGMap (in
map-view.js) is all that's needed (outside of the adding the additional
setting spec), adding something like the following at the end of that
function.
if (settings.earthPlugin) {
map.addMapType(G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP);
}
- John
John Callahan wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Yes, this is rather easy to do, at least just to get your map
> Earth-enabled. And it looks pretty cool. I haven't tried anything
> sophisticated yet with the GE plugin. One of these days....
>
>
> There are several ways to do it but I've only tried one. First, add a
> mapConstructor function to your map view
>
> ex:mapConstructor="newMapConstructor"
>
> Then, add the javascript function newMapConstructor() somewhere on your
> page. Since you are now constructing your own google map from scratch,
> you need to add a few lines that Exhibit normally does for you. Here's
> something that works well
>
> function newMapConstructor(mapDiv){
> map = new GMap2(mapDiv);
> map.setCenter(new GLatLng(39.2,-75.4), 8);
> map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
> map.addControl(new GHierarchicalMapTypeControl());
> map.addMapType(G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP);
> return map;
> }
>
> The "G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP" control enables the Google Earth plugin (which
> must be installed on the client to work.)
>
> You can also add any of the map controls listed in
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GControlImpl
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - John
>
>
>
> Matt Gilbert wrote:
>
>> On the Gogle Earth API site it says "If you have an existing Maps API
>> site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of
>> code." (http://code.google.com/apis/earth/)
>>
>> Has anyone tried this on a Google Maps Exhibit? Seems possible.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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