Mimick LatLng tooltip in Google Maps

[EpicAdv]

I'd like to create a tool tip similar to the one in Maps Lab on Google Maps -- the one where you hold down shift and it shows the lat/long of the cursor.

Anyone know how I can do this?

[Chris Broadfoot]

Look at OverlayView:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#CustomOverlays

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#OverlayView

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:35 AM, EpicAdv <mikes...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to create a tool tip similar to the one in Maps Lab on Google Maps -- the one where you hold down shift and it shows the lat/long of the cursor.

Anyone know how I can do this?

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[Pil]

On Jul 21, 11:35 pm, EpicAdv <mikesut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to create a tool tip similar to the one in Maps Lab on Google Maps

I'd like to see this behaviour exactly.
Can you provide a link to the example you mean?

[EpicAdv]

I'm not sure how to link to it.

Go to maps.google.com
Then click "Maps Labs"
Then enable LatLng Tooltip

I'll attach a screen shot.

[Pil]

Thanks for the description. Not so easy to find nowadays. I think the
labs have been deprecated.

This is a usable link to open the chooser for the labs extensions at
the moment:

http://maps.google.com/maps?showlabs=1


And here you go

http://www.wolfpil.de/v3/coords-in-tooltip.html

It's not completely finished yet, but there is only a tiny piece of
task to do.

>  screenshot.jpg
> 94KViewDownload

[Pil]

Completely finished and updated the example at

http://www.wolfpil.de/v3/coords-in-tooltip.html


When you play around with it, you will notice that the tooltip
sometimes (rarely) looses position. This seems not really
reproducable, only noticable when playing around, zooming in and out,
dragging the map...

This looks like a hardly fixable API bug to me. I noticed that the
returned bounds are randomly junk. Could also be that the conversion
of MapCanvasProjection of the bounds returns randomly junk.

[EpicAdv]

Very nice!  Thank you!  Just what I was after.