TOPIC: skinning a worldmap with Hotspots

Hello,
for a customer I need a Joomla! extension to mark all the company's locations on a world map. Problem is, that almost all extensions rely on Google maps and they LOOK like Google maps which is not desired. Is there a way to let the map look like the attached image?

Hey Markus,
I doubt that you'll achieve this with the google maps API. We support the custom styles feature that google has. You can style the map as you want like this:
developers.google.com/maps/documentation...aptype-styled-simple
developers.google.com/maps/documentation...ptype-styled-complex

You can use this tool for this: gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trun...ps/wizard/index.html

However as I said at the beginning I don't think that you can achieve this dot variant with it.

Regards,
Daniel

Check this for some inspiration:
googlemapsmania.blogspot.it/search/label/Styled%20Maps

cheers,
Daniel

Hello Daniel,
I'm interested in buying the pro version of hotspots, but before i'd like to understand if I can obtain what I need
I need to have a map with hotspots, but in which every country is filled with a different coloration, as it happens in this geochart:
code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?ty...tion&hl=es#geo_chart
Do you know if that is possible in google maps?

I am thinking of a possible solution, but I don't know if it is feasible. Here it is:
visiting the links you suggested in this Topic I ended up in this demo gallery:
developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/demogallery
and in particular in this example:
gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trun...ountry_explorer.html
which seems to suggest that google maps and google charts can be integrated together.
Do you know if it is possible to integrate the coloured nations geo_chart example with google maps, and to pass this styling personalization in Hotspots?
Or do you have other possible solutions in mind?

Thank you very much for your help.
Adriano

Hey Adriano,
I'm not sure that you can make such map with google maps. You could for example stlye the map black and have thick green borders for the countries, but as far as I know you can't have a country in yellow and another one in pink, but I might be wrong. So far I haven't seen such a map.

Regards,
Daniel

here is what a search in google turns out:
stackoverflow.com/questions/10396723/ass...y-in-google-maps-api
stackoverflow.com/questions/7739830/how-...es-using-google-maps

So it seems that what you are after isn't possible with google maps.