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Dane O'Connor
Dane O'Connor

Reputation: 77278

How do I highlight a country with the google maps api v3?

I'm trying to achieve an effect similar to this:

http://www.state.gov/cms_images/france_map_2007-worldfactbook2.jpg

Notice how France is brighter than the other countries. It has the 'focus'. I've been exploring the API and it looks like I'm supposed use kmlLayers to achieve this effect. Is this correct? If so, how do I leverage or even find kml to do this? How else could I do this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10452

Answers (3)

Sean Mickey
Sean Mickey

Reputation: 7716

The information at these links will help you, I think:

  1. KML of the World Countries as created by Valery Hronusov
  2. KML of the World Capitals as created by Filipumme

Upvotes: 2

Dane O'Connor
Dane O'Connor

Reputation: 77278

I found this can be done with polygons and 'holes'. Google has this pentagon example

The only down side is the polygon needs to be drawn by hand (maybe there's a database of country outlines?) I used this tool to assist with the manual drawing for now.

Upvotes: 2

albert
albert

Reputation: 8153

this demo shows you how: https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/layer-kml

aight, got kml for france; working demo: http://dev.bowdenweb.com/maps/gmaps/layer-kml-02.html

Upvotes: 1

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