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user3424258
user3424258

Reputation: 15

Pass google maps coordinates to marker

I am looking to pass a set of coordinates received from two textfields(displayLat and displayLong) and create a marker with the passed in coordinates as the marker location. Code so far:

    <html>
    <head>
    <script>
    function initialize()
    {
    var markersArray = [];          //array to hold the map markers

    function clearOverlays() {      //function to clear the markers from the arrays, deleting them from the map
      for (var i = 0; i < markersArray.length; i++ ) {
markersArray[i].setMap(null);
      }
      markersArray.length = 0;
    }
    var mapProp = {     //the actual map in the page
      center:new google.maps.LatLng(51.8978719,-8.471087399999988),     //center of map
      zoom:12,          //zoom level
      mapTypeId:google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP       //kind of map
      };
    var map=new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("googleMap")        //element ID
      ,mapProp);

    google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'rightclick', function(event) {      //what happens when the map is right clicked
        clearOverlays();            //removes current markers form the map
      });

    function placeMarker(location) {        //place marker function, adds marker to passed in location
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: location,
map: map,
      })
      markersArray.push(marker);        //adds new marker to the markers array
      google.maps.event.addListener(marker,"click",function(){});           
      ;

    google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {     //listener so when a marker is clicked an infowindow pops up
infowindow.open(map,marker);
      });
    }
    }

    function InputCoords()
    {
    var Inputlat = document.getElementById('displayLat').value;
    var Inputlng = document.getElementById('displayLong').value;
    var newLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(Inputlat, Inputlng); 

    document.getElementById("button1").innerHTML=newLatLng;

    placeMarker(newLatLng); 

    document.getElementById("button1").innerHTML="Past var dec";

    }

    google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);


    </script>
    </head>

    <body>
    <div id="googleMap" style="width:500px;height:380px;"></div>
    Lat 1:<input type="text" size="20" maxlength="50" name="displayLat" id ="displayLat" value=""><br />
    Long 1:<input type="text" size="20" maxlength="50" name="displayLong" id="displayLong" value=""><br />

    <button onclick="InputCoords()">Input Coordinates</button>
    <p id="button1"></p>


    </body>
    </html>

So far I am passing in the coordinates, converting them into a google.maps.LatLng object but they are not getting passed to the placeMarker function so far as I can tell. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1367

Answers (1)

Anto Jurković
Anto Jurković

Reputation: 11258

function InputCoords() calls function placeMarker() which is not visible because it is local to initialize() function. You have to place it out of it. And make variables map and markersArray global.

See example at jsbin.

You can also add:

map.setCenter(location);

to placeMarker() function to see marker if location is off the current visible part of map.

Upvotes: 1

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