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Lance Dyas

More options May 14, 12:30 am

From: Lance Dyas <lance...@inetnebr.com>

Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:30:38 -0500

Local: Wed, May 14 2008 12:30 am

Subject: Re: Center by continent

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Wallzy wrote:
> Thanks, I'll work my way through that but I am still not sure how I
> can translate the mapping that exists for states into that of
> continents.

sigh.. are you honestly saying that? what you display you have to make
or find

Step 1 find your data... shapefiles ..dlg. or kml or something (modify
to taste with the right tool
for instance Country boundaries ought to be modifiable into continents
without too much work
or you might add divisional lines to land mass boundaries.)
Step 2 convert it into the format you need (lots of free kml tools out
there)
Step 3 emulate an example given

There are probably even "free GIS tools" out there which you can use to
do steps 1 and 2.
See the key words .. google is your friend.

> Cheers,
> Wallzy

> 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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