I am setting multiple markers on my map and I can set statically the zoom levels and the center but what I want is, to cover all the markers and zoom as much as possible having all markets visible
Available methods are following
and
Neither setCenter
supports multiple location or Location array input nor setZoom
does have this type of functionality
This question is related to
javascript
google-maps-api-3
To extend the given answer with few useful tricks:
var markers = //some array;
var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
for(i=0;i<markers.length;i++) {
bounds.extend(markers[i].getPosition());
}
//center the map to a specific spot (city)
map.setCenter(center);
//center the map to the geometric center of all markers
map.setCenter(bounds.getCenter());
map.fitBounds(bounds);
//remove one zoom level to ensure no marker is on the edge.
map.setZoom(map.getZoom()-1);
// set a minimum zoom
// if you got only 1 marker or all markers are on the same address map will be zoomed too much.
if(map.getZoom()> 15){
map.setZoom(15);
}
//Alternatively this code can be used to set the zoom for just 1 marker and to skip redrawing.
//Note that this will not cover the case if you have 2 markers on the same address.
if(count(markers) == 1){
map.setMaxZoom(15);
map.fitBounds(bounds);
map.setMaxZoom(Null)
}
UPDATE:
Further research in the topic show that fitBounds() is a asynchronic
and it is best to make Zoom manipulation with a listener defined before calling Fit Bounds.
Thanks @Tim, @xr280xr, more examples on the topic : SO:setzoom-after-fitbounds
google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(map, 'bounds_changed', function(event) {
this.setZoom(map.getZoom()-1);
if (this.getZoom() > 15) {
this.setZoom(15);
}
});
map.fitBounds(bounds);
The size of array must be greater than zero. ?therwise you will have unexpected results.
function zoomeExtends(){
var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
if (markers.length>0) {
for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
bounds.extend(markers[i].getPosition());
}
myMap.fitBounds(bounds);
}
}
There is this MarkerClusterer
client side utility available for google Map as specified here on Google Map developer Articles, here is brief on what's it's usage:
There are many approaches for doing what you asked for:
You can read about them on the provided link above.
Marker Clusterer
uses Grid Based Clustering to cluster all the marker wishing the grid. Grid-based clustering works by dividing the map into squares of a certain size (the size changes at each zoom) and then grouping the markers into each grid square.
I hope this is what you were looking for & this will solve your problem :)
Source: Stackoverflow.com