Archive for the 'Mashup' Category

GMap Double Click Event Fired When Double Clicking on Markers in Firefox

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

According to the Google Map’s documentation, a doubleclick event should not be triggered on the GMap object when it occurs on a marker : “This event is fired when a double click is done on the map. Notice that this event will not be fired if the double click was on a marker or other […]

Google Maps and CSS/Javascript Drop Down Menus

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Twice in one week I ran into the same problem. I put Google Maps on a webpage, only to find that the drop down navigation menu went behind the map. One navigation was nested “ul”s with CSS for formatting and a small piece of unobtrusive JavaScript to deal with IE’s problem on not recognizing […]

Google Map Gotchas

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I have been doing some work with Google Maps and found an informative website that helped solve some problems. My first problem was that the info window displayed above my marker was too big, with a lot of extra space at the bottom. It turns out, the info box is created by Google’s javascript based […]

Ask Maps API

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

I am working on a new application and I will make use of a mapping API from one of the search engines. In researching the different maps and their respective API’s, I was disappointed to find out that ask.com doesn’t have an API for their maps. Ask seems to have the best satellite data for […]