Hi, I have been playing with the drawing tools example<http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/drawing/drawing-tools.html>and found it very well designed, neat, capable and functional. However, I think the current design MAY, to some extent, limit it to client side and geometry based apps, rather than client/server and business based apps (although we could provide customised marker, which is good but not enough).
I have put some thoughts in order to expand the applicable fields (could be wrong but hope to put my purpose across, or let me know if any of them is already achievable): 1. have an accessible id field for each overlay, either managed by map or user, so that the developer could easily distinguish between each overlay. This would be useful, for example, if we want to correlate an overlay on map screen and its copy in the backend database when editing. 2. Expose the functions which are called when we click the drawing icons/buttons on map (MARKER, POLYLINE, RECTANGLE, CIRCLE, POLYGON), so that developer could also call them through other means, e.g. via menu items if they wish, without using icons/buttons on map. 3. Provide customisation for map icon/buttons, i.e. images and titles (shown when mouseover), so that we could use “business” based map buttons, rather than “geometry” based map buttons (e.g. “Plant a tree” vs. “Add a marker”). Make sense? Qunhuan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/MVXR8RRLkkoJ. 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.
