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sagar hugar
sagar hugar

Reputation: 21

Google Map Dyanamic language change

I am using backbone.js for one of my project, and I am using Google map api version 3. Depending on some ajax response I want to change Google map language on the fly. Is there any ways of doing it.Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5727

Answers (1)

sabotero
sabotero

Reputation: 4365

Consider the following example where I'm using a button but you can call the ChangeGoogleMapsLanguage from your callback with the parameters you want (adapting the code to take lang parameter):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Asynchronous Loading</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <style>
      html, body, #map-canvas {
        height: 100%;
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px
      }
    </style>
    <script>
        function initialize() {
            var mapOptions = {
                zoom: 8,
                center: new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397, 150.644)
            };

            var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'),
                mapOptions);
        }

        function loadScript(lang) {
            var script = document.createElement('script');
            script.type = 'text/javascript';
            script.src = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false&' +
                'callback=initialize';
            if (lang) {
                script.src += '&language=' + lang;
            }

            script.id = "google-maps-script";
            document.body.appendChild(script);
        }

        window.onload = loadScript;

        function ChangeGoogleMapsLanguage() {

            var lang = document.getElementById('language').value,
                oldScript = document.getElementById("google-maps-script");
            oldScript.parentNode.removeChild(oldScript);

            delete google.maps;

            loadScript(lang);
        }

    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <input type="text" id="language" value="ja" />
    <button id="localization-button" onclick="ChangeGoogleMapsLanguage()">Change Language</button>
    <div id="map-canvas"></div>
  </body>
</html>

Working in jsFiddle as well: Exemple

NOTE: I'm using vanilla JavaScript. The code might work fine in Chrome, I did not teste it in other browsers.

Upvotes: 2

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