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Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:56:13 +0000

Hey we’ve been using this for a while and it works great. I modified it to work with an XML list we use to updated the dealer locations for our store.

Was wondering if you had a version or a quick conversion of this that works with the new Version 3 API, which doesn’t require an API Key and I believe has a few more HTML5 features.

Thanks for the code again, works great we’re just moving to more HTML5 standards and would love to update this if possible.

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by joel.cass

joel.cass — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:48:42 +0000

@WJ – the default location is calculated as the “average” of all the points on the map, and zoom is adjusted to include the points accordingly.

However if this is not working, you could set the point of reference to a location you wish to center the map on. Not the best solution, I know, but I’ll have a look when time permits.

Comment on Seagate “Expansion” Drive powering itself off? by toni

toni — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:44:43 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by Wietze

Wietze — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:45:42 +0000

How can you make the map load on a custom location?
By default it will load somewhere near Australia.

Thanks.

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by WJ

WJ — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:01:57 +0000

Awesome application

Just one question. Is it possible to change the default location? Is allways loads somewhere near Australia, but i would like him to automaticly load Europe.

Any help would by appriciated.

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by joel.cass

joel.cass — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:12:23 +0000

Hi Tony,

The info window size is controlled by the maps API. I’m not sure of how they calculate it. But try this.

In the pointSorter.js, line 241 replace the code as follows: pointSorter.aryMarkers[i].openInfoWindow(pointSorter.aryMarkers[i].description, {maxWidth:99999});

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by Tony

Tony — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:14:09 +0000

How can I make the info window larger. Currently I have a link that is outside of the window. Thanks for the code this was exceptionally helpful!!!

Comment on Seagate “Expansion” Drive powering itself off? by Sery

Sery — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:13:13 +0000

thanks for your advice
exactly what i was searching for!

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by Brandon Jackson

Brandon Jackson — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:08:14 +0000

That’s very helpful, thanks. I’ll have to check it out. I have it all pulling through an XML sheet (easier for others to update than Javascript).

Guess I’ll just have to suck it up and put the coordinates in there.

Comment on Google Maps – Create your own store locator by joel.cass

joel.cass — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:19:30 +0000

Hi Brandon, I've had that issue before and it is usually due to too many connections to the google servers at the same time. The points should be processed in a serial manner provided that you are calling the pointSorter.addPointByAddress() method. A tool I have been using to debug such situations is 'tamper data' for firefox. It shows the running requests and their status codes. Alternatively, convert all the addresses to coordinates and it will run much faster. One app I wrote had 2000+ locations that I was loading by address, needless to say it did not run well, or at all in some computers. Converting the addresses to points made it run very smoothly. To convert the addresses to points you can either use the maps AJAX API (one thing tamper data helped me figure out) or just populate a text box by modifying the pointSorter.addPoint() method, e.g. txtBox.value += "\r\n" + address + ": " + point.getLatLng().lat + ", " + point.getLatLng().lng. Hope that helps