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Kosmik
Kosmik

Reputation: 1

Google Maps Api V3:Make marker move automatically

I am using the tutorial in google maps code found here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlajax_v3.html

and I am loading my markers from the mysql database.

What I want is to make markers move in an way that they represent the movements of a bus.

Is it possible?

Can it be done with polyline?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3669

Answers (1)

no.good.at.coding
no.good.at.coding

Reputation: 20371

This sounds like a simple matter of using Marker#setPosition(). As you get the new positions for buses, get a reference to the marker for each bus and update it's LatLng value. You might maintain an array of markers that you iterate over or some sort of a mapping between bus identifier and it's marker.

And I don't understand how you would represent the movements of a bus using a polyline - that doesn't make sense. However, if you want to update a polyline, then you might do it by updating the path MVCArray passed to create the polyline. According to the documentation:

path MVCArray.| Array.
The ordered sequence of coordinates of the Polyline. This path may be specified using either a simple array of LatLngs, or an MVCArray of LatLngs. Note that if you pass a simple array, it will be converted to an MVCArray Inserting or removing LatLngs in the MVCArray will automatically update the polyline on the map.

Upvotes: 2

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