TOPIC: keeping icon in street view mode

Hi,

I was checking how the new version is looking so far at http://labs.compojoom.com/index.php/hotspots#!1

Looks pretty good so far.

I have a question:

Will I be able to see the hotspot icon in street view mode? That will be awesome.

http://www.virtualbc.ca

What do you mean with the "hotspots icon in street view mode" ?

You still want to show the markers when in street view mode or what?

Answering your question, Yes, I want people be able to see the markers when they are using street view mode, in that way they will have access to the information contained in the markers, and they wont have to go back to normal mode to see the information from the marker.

www.virtualbc.ca

If you look closely you will see that the marker is shown also in street view. The infowindow stays behing the streetview images, but it should be possible to show it also...

I'll see what I can do, but I don't promise to have this in the next version

Thanks Daniel.

Any new information related with this topic?

Once customers are in street view mode and see the marker, they will click on it for more information like phone number, address, website or even get directions, but Do they have to go back to regular maps to get that information?
That's annoying to them. That was the comment from my business partner, and I am agree with her.

I have some ideas about this and I'll experiment with them over the weekend. Will let you know on monday.
Daniel

Thanks man.

Can you use

z-index:9999;

to bring the infowindow to the front?

The infowindow is always shown in front. Why to use z-index on it?

on street view mode the infowindow is not in front, otherwise i will see it.

Ah, that... No it has nothing to do with the z-index, but the sharing of object between the map object and the streetview object.
If you want to dig into this:
code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/...l#StreetViewMapUsage

I took a look and it's like Chinese to me.

Thanks for the suggestion but I am not planning to learn Javascript. I consider this feature as a huge plus for the streetview mode.

Well, I got it partially working, but it is crashing the browsers Don't know if I can include it in 2.0.2 on Monday.
groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-a...ead/80b648e56b333a65

Maybe destroying the infoWindow when switching between street mode and normal map mode could be a temporary solution. Did you test it?

I tried to jump into streetview mode from the plane map with the infowindow opened.
Result: the infowindow disappeared but i was allowed to click on the marker and the infowindow came back.

I tried to jump into the plane map from streetview mode with the infowindow opened.
Result: the infowindow dissapeared but the browser crashed when i clicked on the marker.

Tested with chrome.

Hi Daniel,

Google Maps is showing infowindows in streetview mode.

go to google maps
and search for: mon thong restaurant kelowna
take the 'yellow guy' to the front of point B (the actual restaurant)
and click on the hotspot with the letter B
an infowindow is showing the info from that restaurant.

Looks like these guys from Google Map Groups are too lazy to answer, or they just don't wanna bring the light to this problem, because if google maps is showing infowindows on streetview mode, definitely it's not a bug.

As far as I know - google maps uses methods unavailable in the public google maps API. They do a lot of their own stuff and maybe that is the reason why it works. (also note that they don't use the standard infowindow, but their own...)

yes, that could be the reason. We need a spy inside google's empire. :cool:

SO, I was looking at the map changelog and it seems that google has fixed this:
3.5 August 10, 2011

Fixed:

Markers stuck in drag up position when dragged to horizon in Street View
Street View not resizing when map or window resized
Street View with a shared InfoWindow crashes browser

code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/...ptMapsAPIv3Changelog

I'll add the infowindow again in the next version.

Hi Daniel,

Those are good news!!!