Great extension, canvas is proving to be the way forward for performance, and many of us no longer care to support ie8. One question though, I'm wondering if you considered and/or testing the idea of making this extension with a single canvas layer and adding the labels to that , rather than creating many canvases, and what if any, were the performance implications. Thanks-
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:06:40 AM UTC-4, Chris Broadfoot (Google Employee) wrote: > > Gareth, > > Try the MapLabel library: > > https://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/19172241660b2de5 > > Fantastic if your target browser supports Canvas. > > Chris > > -- > G+: http://chrisbroadfoot.id.au/+ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/broady > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Gareth <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I have not yet been able to find a good way to place labels on a map in >> the v3 API. The best thing I have found is this infobox thing: >> http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/infobox/ >> >> I have managed to get some mediocre looking labels to display using it, >> but they obverlap each other when zoomed out. >> http://www.northmiamicra.org/downloadandlabelxml.html >> >> Is there any way that I can put these infoboxes into a Marker Manager so >> that I can specify at what zoom scale the labels should display? >> >> The old 'Elabels' from v2 could be put inside a marker manager, there is >> an example of it here: >> http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_elabelmanager.htm >> >> Can the "infobox" be put inside the marker manger aswell? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/9mNNpMSrAgAJ. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
