Google Maps API: open url by clicking on marker
JavascriptGoogle MapsGoogle Maps-Api-3Google Maps-MarkersJavascript Problem Overview
I want to open a new window by clicking on a marker using Google Maps API 3.
Unfortunately there are not many examples for the Google Maps API and I found out this code:
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
window.location.href = marker.url;
});
How to use it, when I create markers with a loop? I tried it in many ways with no afford.
This is my code – I made it simple and short:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
<style type="text/css">
html { height: 100% }
body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0 }
#map_canvas { height: 100% }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var points = [
['name1', 59.9362384705039, 30.19232525792222, 12],
['name2', 59.941412822085645, 30.263564729357767, 11],
['name3', 59.939177197629455, 30.273554411974955, 10]
];
function setMarkers(map, locations) {
var shape = {
coord: [1, 1, 1, 20, 18, 20, 18 , 1],
type: 'poly'
};
for (var i = 0; i < locations.length; i++) {
var flag = new google.maps.MarkerImage('markers/' + (i + 1) + '.png',
new google.maps.Size(17, 19),
new google.maps.Point(0,0),
new google.maps.Point(0, 19));
var place = locations[i];
var myLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(place[1], place[2]);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: myLatLng,
map: map,
icon: flag,
shape: shape,
title: place[0],
zIndex: place[3]
});
}
}
function initialize() {
var myOptions = {
center: new google.maps.LatLng(59.91823239768787, 30.243222856188822),
zoom: 12,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
};
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"),myOptions);
setMarkers(map, points);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="initialize()">
<div id="map_canvas" style="width:50%; height:50%"></div>
</body>
</html>
How to open url by clicking on marker with code above?
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
You can add a specific url to each point, e.g.:
var points = [ ['name1', 59.9362384705039, 30.19232525792222, 12, 'www.google.com'],
['name2', 59.941412822085645, 30.263564729357767, 11, 'www.amazon.com'],
['name3', 59.939177197629455, 30.273554411974955, 10, 'www.stackoverflow.com']
];
Add the url to the marker values in the for-loop:
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
...
zIndex: place[3],
url: place[4]
});
Then you can add just before to the end of your for-loop:
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
window.location.href = this.url;
});
Also see this example.
Solution 2 - Javascript
url isn't an object on the Marker class. But there's nothing stopping you adding that as a property to that class. I'm guessing whatever example you were looking at did that too. Do you want a different URL for each marker? What happens when you do:
for (var i = 0; i < locations.length; i++)
{
var flag = new google.maps.MarkerImage('markers/' + (i + 1) + '.png',
new google.maps.Size(17, 19),
new google.maps.Point(0,0),
new google.maps.Point(0, 19));
var place = locations[i];
var myLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(place[1], place[2]);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: myLatLng,
map: map,
icon: flag,
shape: shape,
title: place[0],
zIndex: place[3],
url: "/your/url/"
});
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
window.location.href = this.url;
});
}
Solution 3 - Javascript
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', (function(marker, i) {
return function() {
window.location.href = marker.url;
}
})(marker, i));
Solution 4 - Javascript
If anyone wants to add an URL on a single marker which not require for loops, here is how it goes:
if ($('#googleMap').length) {
var initialize = function() {
var mapOptions = {
zoom: 15,
scrollwheel: false,
center: new google.maps.LatLng(45.725788, -73.5120818),
styles: [{
stylers: [{
saturation: -100
}]
}]
};
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("googleMap"), mapOptions);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: map.getCenter(),
animation: google.maps.Animation.BOUNCE,
icon: 'example-marker.png',
map: map,
url: 'https://example.com'
});
//Add an url to the marker
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
window.location.href = this.url;
});
}
// Add the map initialize function to the window load function
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, "load", initialize);
}
Solution 5 - Javascript
function loadMarkers(){
{% for location in object_list %}
var point = new google.maps.LatLng({{location.latitude}},{{location.longitude}});
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: point,
map: map,
url: {{location.id}},
});
google.maps.event.addDomListener(marker, 'click', function() {
window.location.href = this.url; });
{% endfor %}
Solution 6 - Javascript
the previous answers didn't work out for me well. I had persisting problems by setting the marker. So i changed the code slightly.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI" />
<title>Google Maps Multiple Markers</title>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"
type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map" style="width: 1500px; height: 1000px;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var locations = [
['Goettingen', 51.54128040000001, 9.915803500000038, 'http://www.google.de'],
['Kassel', 51.31271139999999, 9.479746100000057,0, 'http://www.stackoverflow.com'],
['Witzenhausen', 51.33996819999999, 9.855564299999969,0, 'www.http://developer.mozilla.org.de']
];
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
zoom: 10,
center: new google.maps.LatLng(51.54376, 9.910419999999931),
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
});
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
var marker, i;
for (i = 0; i < locations.length; i++) {
marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: new google.maps.LatLng(locations[i][1], locations[i][2]),
map: map,
url: locations[i][4]
});
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'mouseover', (function(marker, i) {
return function() {
infowindow.setContent(locations[i][0]);
infowindow.open(map, marker);
}
})(marker, i));
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', (function(marker, i) {
return function() {
infowindow.setContent(locations[i][0]);
infowindow.open(map, marker);
window.location.href = this.url;
}
})(marker, i));
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
This way worked out for me! You can create Google Maps routing links from your Datebase to to use it as an interactive routing map.