> I am new to google maps API and have been struggling with a few
> things.  I am trying to build a map to show office branch locations
> across the world.  I don't want to display the locations initially but
> what I would like to do is show a map on which only a continent is
> selectable.  When someone clicks on this it then centres the map on
> that particular continent showing my markers (determined from
> information pulled from a database) representing each office
> location.

> Do anyone have any pointers as how to go about this or have any
> examples of where this has been done?

> > Hi,

> > I am new to google maps API and have been struggling with a few
> > things.  I am trying to build a map to show office branch locations
> > across the world.  I don't want to display the locations initially but
> > what I would like to do is show a map on which only a continent is
> > selectable.  When someone clicks on this it then centres the map on
> > that particular continent showing my markers (determined from
> > information pulled from a database) representing each office
> > location.

> > Do anyone have any pointers as how to go about this or have any
> > examples of where this has been done?

> Do you mean something like this:http://www.geocodezip.com/google_northamerica_officesJ.asp

> Based off of this example from google:http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanager/r...

>   -- Larry

> It's creating these continent areas that I don't know how to go about.

> On May 13, 3:13 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

> > On May 13, 6:54 am, Wallzy <adrian.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Hi,

> > > I am new to google maps API and have been struggling with a few
> > > things.  I am trying to build a map to show office branch locations
> > > across the world.  I don't want to display the locations initially but
> > > what I would like to do is show a map on which only a continent is
> > > selectable.  When someone clicks on this it then centres the map on
> > > that particular continent showing my markers (determined from
> > > information pulled from a database) representing each office
> > > location.

> > > Do anyone have any pointers as how to go about this or have any
> > > examples of where this has been done?

> > Do you mean something like this:http://www.geocodezip.com/google_northamerica_officesJ.asp

> > Based off of this example from google:http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanager/r...

> >   -- Larry- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

> > Yeah, I have come across that example previously.  It has the two
> > levels I want to acheive, however I instead of the top level being USA
> > and Canada I would like this to be continents Europe, N. America
> > etc....   So that for example hovering over Europe highlights all of
> > Europe and clicking on it focuses the map to this region.

> > It's creating these continent areas that I don't know how to go about.

> Look at the code...
> This file defines the icons and there locations:http://www.geocodezip.com/scripts/google_northamerica_offices_mod1.js

> The documentation for the markermanager may help you understand it.http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMarker...

> or the open source version of it:http://gmaps-utility-library-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanag...

> You just need to pick a point to center on for each "continent".  Or
> you might want to do something like this:http://econym.googlepages.com/example_states.htm

> But for continents...

>   -- Larry

> > On May 13, 3:13 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:

> > > On May 13, 6:54 am, Wallzy <adrian.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > Hi,

> > > > I am new to google maps API and have been struggling with a few
> > > > things.  I am trying to build a map to show office branch locations
> > > > across the world.  I don't want to display the locations initially but
> > > > what I would like to do is show a map on which only a continent is
> > > > selectable.  When someone clicks on this it then centres the map on
> > > > that particular continent showing my markers (determined from
> > > > information pulled from a database) representing each office
> > > > location.

> > > > Do anyone have any pointers as how to go about this or have any
> > > > examples of where this has been done?

> > > Do you mean something like this:http://www.geocodezip.com/google_northamerica_officesJ.asp

> > > Based off of this example from google:http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanager/r...

> > >   -- Larry- Hide quoted text -

> > - Show quoted text -

> On May 13, 3:57 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> On May 13, 7:36 am, Wallzy <adrian.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Yeah, I have come across that example previously.  It has the two
>>> levels I want to acheive, however I instead of the top level being USA
>>> and Canada I would like this to be continents Europe, N. America
>>> etc....   So that for example hovering over Europe highlights all of
>>> Europe and clicking on it focuses the map to this region.

>>> It's creating these continent areas that I don't know how to go about.

>> Look at the code...
>> This file defines the icons and there locations:http://www.geocodezip.com/scripts/google_northamerica_offices_mod1.js

>> The documentation for the markermanager may help you understand it.http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMarker...

>> or the open source version of it:http://gmaps-utility-library-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanag...

>> You just need to pick a point to center on for each "continent".  Or
>> you might want to do something like this:http://econym.googlepages.com/example_states.htm

>> But for continents...

>>   -- Larry

>>> On May 13, 3:13 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:

>>>> On May 13, 6:54 am, Wallzy <adrian.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>> Hi,

>>>>> I am new to google maps API and have been struggling with a few
>>>>> things.  I am trying to build a map to show office branch locations
>>>>> across the world.  I don't want to display the locations initially but
>>>>> what I would like to do is show a map on which only a continent is
>>>>> selectable.  When someone clicks on this it then centres the map on
>>>>> that particular continent showing my markers (determined from
>>>>> information pulled from a database) representing each office
>>>>> location.

>>>>> Do anyone have any pointers as how to go about this or have any
>>>>> examples of where this has been done?

>>>> Do you mean something like this:http://www.geocodezip.com/google_northamerica_officesJ.asp

>>>> Based off of this example from google:http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markermanager/r...

>>>>   -- Larry- Hide quoted text -

>>> - Show quoted text -

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