Label overlays?

[jhodgski]

Does anyone know how I can add simple text-in-box overlays to my v3
map? (v2 solution is http://sub1.econym.org.uk/gmap/elabel.htm - but
it doesn't work on v3...)

Cheers,
James

[geoco...@gmail.com]

On Aug 23, 11:34 am, jhodgski <ja...@telestial.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can add simple text-in-box overlays to my v3

> map? (v2 solution ishttp://sub1.econym.org.uk/gmap/elabel.htm- but

> it doesn't work on v3...)

You could try porting that to v3 or use the native v3 OverlayView.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#OverlayView

-- Larry

>
> Cheers,
> James

[Joseph Elfelt]

Perhaps KML ground overlays would be useful.

This example uses an image as a ground overlay.
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#ground_overlays

I've used text in a png file as ground overlays

[JeffJensen]

Just to clarify - Google Maps v3 API does NOT support placemark
labels, right? So a KML file which has placemark labels will display
correctly in Google Earth but not in Google Maps.
Google Maps does support KML Elements NAME, POINT and PLACEMARK (see
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlelementsinmaps.html)
so I'm not sure why I cannot get Google Maps to display a label since
these are the elements which have the placemark label.

Thanks,

Jeff Jensen

On Aug 23, 12:20 pm, Joseph Elfelt <josephelf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps KML ground overlays would be useful.
>

> This example uses an image as a ground overlay.http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#ground_ove...