markers bubble

G’day Daniele,

Clicking on the markers from top-left to bottom centre, I have no problems at all. In general, clicking a marker below the marker with an info window open always works. If you have an info window covering a marker, it will obviously mask the marker — but realise that how Google draws those info windows can involve transparent areas so you can have something covering a marker but invisible, and that can get in the way of your clicking!

cheers,
Ross

Today I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue. Yesterday it was really random and I did not figure out what was causing it.

Anyway, thanks for your quick reply, I’ll keep you updated ??

Daniele

PS. I don’t want to open a new thread.. I’m going to start a long bicycle tour and I will use a kml like that to show a map on my website. Let’s say that this kml will reach over time something like 1-2,000 entries or more, with title and rich description, maybe sometime with a picture in it. Do you expect some issue to load it in a map, or the mechanism is completely scalable?

Thanks

Google Maps declares a limit of 1,000 “features”, so I reckon about 1,000 on a KML file is likely to be your limit. You’d need to break it into two KML maps after that.

https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/mapsSupport

cheers,
Ross

Hi Ross,

1000 points is a limit of the KML file, but maybe implementing in your plugin the possibility to import more than one kml could be a workaround? I imagine a shortcode like this: [flexiblemap src="kml_address_1" src_2="kml_address_2"]

What do you think about this?

Thanks
Daniele

I’m not likely to add that any day soon. It may come later in the year, but I don’t want to complicate this plugin too much. There are actually other plugins that do accommodate multiple layers, so you might want to do a little googling to see what else it available.

cheers,
Ross

I Ross, I am bumping this topic because after 11 months I still don’t understand what is the issue with the marker bubbles.

You can see the flexible map embedded in my website at this link. This is not anymore a test page, I am traveling since 9 months and I am in Tajikistan right now ??

I have a serious problem with the bubbles. Sometimes they appear, sometimes they don’t, it is apparently random.

If you want to inspect the dynamic kml, you can download it from this link

Cheers
Daniele

G’day Daniele,

Crikey, you must have legs like tree trunks by now!

I just tried the map, no problem with bubbles. I’ll give it a bash in a few browsers tomorrow to see what it does.

I see that you’re still running v1.9.1 of the plugin, which is using v3.18 of Google Maps API (says v3.17 but it gets auto-promoted). Maybe upgrading the plugin to get v3.19 of Google Maps API will help. They have fixed a number of bugs over the past year!

cheers,
Ross