Posts tagged "javascript"

Google Transit Layer through Google Maps API

This is a followup to a post we did a while back that showed how to add the Google Transit and Google Bike layer to a google map using the Google Maps API. We’ve updated this with code based on Google Maps Javascript API version 3. Google Maps API v3 now allows you to add [...]

Add Google Bike or Google Transit layer to your Google Maps API

Using Google Maps API you can choose between a few different background layers: Standard, Satellite, Hybrid and Physical. This is done using the setMapType() method. However, there currently isn’t a way to get display the transit or bike map layer. However, Google Maps allows you to create your own tile layer and load in into [...]

Finally, something more gimmicky than the Blink Tag (Firefox 3.6 Orientation events)

Update: Orientation events are now baked into the stable release of Firefox 3.6. Firefox 3.6 beta was released today. It added support for “Orientation” events in web content. This javascript event can use a devices built in accelerometers to detect the orientation and update accordingly. Since our company name is based on a non-standard HTML [...]

you’d think this would be easy – Google Maps panes API

You’d think it would be easy to change the stacking order of things you overlay in Google Maps, right? Like, no one wants that stupid AC Transit logo to go underneath the polygon they drew . . . . . you’d think . . . . Anyways, after like five or six hours of poking [...]