The width of the marker if hardcoded into the plugin, but you can change it yourself.

There is the following line in gmaps_v2.php file (line: 111)

var opts = { maxWidth : 300 };

just change the 300 to any value you wish (the value if width of marker in pixels)

Hope this helps,
Mike.

I have the problem of the Info Balloon being too big. I have read on several other sites that the balloon is made "upstream" of any plug-in by the Google App based on the size of the displayed map.
However, I need to display at 240px wide, and the correct map size is displayed by the plug-in, but the balloon is always too wide.

As usual… any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

yes, the "ll" parameter is not automatically added by Google Maps when you search for an address, and this will lead to problems with the map not being properly displayed using my plugin. The simplest solution is to :

1. Search Google Maps by an address
2. once you found the location, max zoom on it using zoom slider
3. drag the map one pixel and back in order to let google "know" that you have adjusted the panning
4. now, zoom out to the level at which you want the map to be displayed, and get a link for that page

this way you're guaranteed to get the "ll"parameter set in your link and everything should work.
Step 3 is the most important, step 2 is added in order to minimize possible error which can crawl in after you manually dragged the map (say, you dragged left 2 pixels and right 1 pixel - this way you have 1 pixel off from the original location).

Mike.

sorry for spamming who ever i spammed with these 3 in a row :)

which is the map of Bacau, Romania and not Moskow

ll is not defined

which is normal since the plugin tries to read a 'll' parameter in the map url and there is no such parameter. There is 'sll' which means something else than longitude/latitude.

Here's an example of how a map url looks when you click the 'Link to this page' link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bacau+ro&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.41771,83.144531&ie=UTF8&z=9&iwloc=addr&om=0

Any ideas?
Thank you.

Thanksa nd regards

# Daniel Says:
June 26th, 2007 at 5:01 am

I used this in a previous theme and it worked great. Neverrtheless, I downloaded recently the "highground theme" and for some reasons it does not display the map's marker properly (it shows a white square with some grey in it).

Another problem I have is the "hybrid" mode. Although the "map" and "satellite" mode works fine in the hybrid mode it displays mostly a white background.

Do you have any idea of why does that happend?

Thank you so much…