Hi all. I'm the author of a v2 mapplet that overlays the Washington, DC Metro system's routes on a map (source: http://dcist.com/map/mapplet.xml; also present in the mapplet gallery). My initial non-mapplet release predated the addition of transit stops to the underlying tiles. That development made my project a bit redundant, but some users still enjoy seeing the position of the lines at a variety of zoom levels -- it's attractive, an interesting counterpoint to the stylized system map, and it makes navigation a little easier -- so I converted my project to a mapplet.
I've been away from the API for a bit, but have recently received some user reports complaining that some subway lines fail to redraw properly after the user enables the mapplet and performs a search. I've been able to recreate this behavior, and concluded that the 'zoomend' event isn't firing in the way it used to. Some more investigation revealed that v2 is deprecated, and that the mapplet platform has been discontinued! Given the deprecation (and the seemingly flaky behavior of the scratch pad mapplet), I'm not eager to simply fix my v2 code (though I could presumably do so by hooking a few more event handlers to the redraw routine). Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a clear way to add this sort of overlay to the default maps.google.com functionality under v3. I understand that I could reimplement the entire interface, hooking things up to the relevant local search API(s). But I'm not eager to invest that much time to rebuild and keep updated an interface that Google has already built. I'd just like to augment that existing interface (I would be happy to do so at my own domain). So: under v3, is there a simple way to add overlays to the default maps.google.com interface? Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- 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.
