I'm trying to create a map which has already highlighted a place on the Map with in the top left corner the business name, address, reviews etc. If you go here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/start
And under 'Highlight a place or an address' type the name of a local business, you will see what I mean.
However.. In the API docs I can't find a way to create this type of map! With the places API you can request the places' details, but I can't seem to find how to use those details to create a map like this in the javascript API. What am I missing?
The "highlighted a place on the Map" is a Google Maps feature which is not available in the API. However, you can refer to this workaround for your need
Google Maps how to Show city or an Area outline
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If I search a query in google maps for example "carlton victoria australia" then it will give me a map of the region with the border around that area.
My questions are:
Is there a way to get list of all regions from the google map api for
certain province or country?
Can I combine the region information for example, change the color and also add some infowindow on top of the region?
What kind of level of the region that I can get from the api (district, subdistrict, village)?
Currently Google Maps JavaScript API doesn't expose any boundaries of geographic features. There is very old feature request in the public issue tracker to add this functionality, however it looks like Google didn't set high priority on this:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35816953
Feel free to star the public feature request to express your interest and subscribe to further updates from Google.
You can get polygons from other sources and add them to Google maps as additional layers.
The nice workaround to get polygons in GeoJSON format from OpenStreetMap is described in the following answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/40172098/5140781
So, if you download the GeoJSON you will be able to add it to map using the data layer and its loadGeoJson() method:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/datalayer#load_geojson
You can style colors of GeoJSON objects and create info windows. Just read the aforementioned documentation.
I hope this helps!
I have used the directions service to render a route on Google Maps. I managed to show the distance and travel time on a marker via the response object which contains the data. But how do I show the information on hover on the blue polylines?
For example:
I have been unable to find this feature in the documentation, but my customer is saying he had this feature in his old website (which is offline, not available anymore).
Is this feature still available in Google Maps? And if so, where are the docs located for this particular feature? Is there another another solution?
I want to create a Web application in which I need a map data of certain area and would like to show the details or location of my customers.
I have seen the Google maps api, but I was searching if I could get something privately for my web application.
Please reply. Thanks.in advance
You can add marker to your map. Markers are designed to be interactive with 'click' events. You can add an event listener to bring up an info window displaying custom information. These marker will only show what you specify. They will not show other marker ( shops,petrol bunks,aims etc)
You can always use the Places API from Google in order to show various places on the Google Maps and also the detailed description about that Places.
Here is the detailed description for the Places API.
Here is a tutorial that may help you in your implementation.
I want to show locations on google map based on the user search criteria i.e; if a user selects London, then all records from London should be displayed and if user enters his postcode then it should show the result within 25 miles of his postcode on the google map(All data will be coming from database php/mysql).
Now the question is What should I use? KML or google map api V3, As i want to give option to user to see brief info about the location, when he will mousehover that marker, and onClick of that marker I want to show the image of location and review count, and distance(calculated dynamically based on his postcode.), I also want to ceate custom markers. I have done some work on api V3 previously but wanted to know about KML. Does it supports my need? As according to my understanding KML is just a static file and can't give such dynamics.If so, can you please provide any sample and how to do that.
Thanks
Your understanding is correct, KML are just static files. You should be able to complete your requirements using combination of google maps api v3 methods like geocode, computeDistance etc.
I am creating a web app. One of the page is designed to show google map of an address traced from database. So after I get langitude and latitude using gencode, I know how to draw the google map, but how do I show an address tag on that map? Any help is appreciated.
You are probably talking about a Marker concept.
Take a look at this article
A couple of other SO folks asked similar questions. These might be helpful:
Draggable markers
While this may be OT, if you ever decide to remove a marker, also look at this question
There is also detailed Marker docs available at the usual API docs site