Disable icon scaling in Street View [35820048]

Fixed

Feature Request

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Description

wa...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Jan 2, 2011 10:50AM

When viewing Street View, marker icons from the map display differently across different browsers.

Generally Internet Explorer 8 will display the marker icon with no scaling/resizing and other browsers will scale/resize the marker icon according to it's distance from the current Street View position.

The demo map i've created here will show different marker icon sizes in different browsers:

http://code.martinpearman.co.uk/streetview_icon_scaling/index.htm

I find the scaled marker rather ugly but more importantly if it is enlarged by the browser it can often obscure the very location it is trying to highlight.

An option to disable any icon size scaling would be very useful and ensure a better cross browser experience.

Comments

ti...@gmail.com <ti...@gmail.com> #2Jan 2, 2011 10:59AM

I'd really like to be able to position the pegman too. When i use custom controls it appears in a very strange position so i can't use it with custom controls.

ti...@gmail.com <ti...@gmail.com> #3Jan 2, 2011 11:01AM

I agree. It would be really nice and helpful to be able to change the postion of the Pegman control.

ev...@gmail.com <ev...@gmail.com> #4Jan 3, 2011 05:28PM

possible resolutions for this issue:

1. marker scaling should behave as it does in

maps.google.com streetview
2. option to disable marker scaling
3. option to set maximum and minimum threshold size of scaled marker

examples:
IE8/XP, no scaling:

http://i54.tinypic.com/16h7mzd.png

Chrome/OSX, giant scaled marker:

http://i56.tinypic.com/6ycpd2.png

ev...@gmail.com <ev...@gmail.com> #5Jan 14, 2011 07:18PM

possible workaround to disable marker scaling:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/forum.html?place=topic/google-maps-js-api-v3/dJHxnsxPrzs/discussion

lu...@google.com <lu...@google.com> Jan 31, 2011 04:53AM

Status: New

cb...@google.com <cb...@google.com> #6Feb 18, 2011 02:33AM

Marked as fixed, reassigned to cb...@google.com.

Markers are now only shrunk, not enlarged.

jo...@gmail.com <jo...@gmail.com> #7Mar 25, 2013 04:09PM

For me this was not a bug.

I would like to have giant markers as shown

http://i56.tinypic.com/6ycpd2.png
The idea is to give the impression the "marker" is actually in the street. Therefore, its size should remain constant in relation with the objects in the street, and it should grow as the "camera" gets near.

Is the code still somewhere ?