Ensure padding around markers on Google Maps for web

Question

I have a full screen Google map with HTML/CSS toolbars overlaid on the map, and a set of map markers.

Is there a way to ensure there is enough padding between the markers and the edges of the map, so that no markers are obscured by the toolbars?

(Codepen in case the code below doesn't work)

function initMap() {

  var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {

    draggable: true,

    streetViewControl: false,

    zoomControl: false

  });



  var marker1 = new google.maps.Marker({

    position: {lat: 37, lng: -121},

    map: map,

  });



  var marker2 = new google.maps.Marker({

    position: {lat: 39.3, lng: -122},

    map: map,

  });

 

  var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();

  bounds.extend(marker1.position);

  bounds.extend(marker2.position);

  map.fitBounds(bounds);

}

#map {

  height: 640px;

  width: 360px;

}

#overlays {

  position: absolute;

  height: 50px;

  width: 340px;

  background: white;

  margin: -80px 10px;

  text-align: center;

  line-height: 50px;

}

/* Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */

html, body {

  height: 100%;

  margin: 0;

  padding: 0;

}

<html>

  <head>

    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">

    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <title>Simple markers</title>



  </head>

  <body>

    <div id="map"></div>

    <div id="overlays">Controls / Order pizza / ETA / etc.</div>

  

    <script async defer

    src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?&callback=initMap">

    </script>

  </body>

</html>

The problem is this:

UPDATE I've tried adding a control as documented at Custom controls, but the map isn't exactly aware of it - see this fiddle forked from the Maps custom control example. One of the markers is still obscured by the control.

Answer 1

PHP to make your map fit into your google maps canvas:

a. create a maxmin frame around your imagine wiht maxLat, minLat, maxLng and minLng from everything that you want to show.

$queryMaxMin = 'SELECT max(Nr_Coordinate_Latitude) AS maxLat, min(Nr_Coordinate_Latitude) AS minLat, max(Nr_Coordinate_Longitude) AS maxLng, min(Nr_Coordinate_Longitude) AS minLng FROM coordinate ';
$resultMaxMin = mysql_query($queryMaxMin);
if (count($resultMaxMin) > 0) {
    $rowMaxMin = mysql_fetch_array($resultMaxMin);
    include ('distanceGeoPoints.php');
    $distance = distanceGeoPoints($rowMaxMin['maxLat'], $rowMaxMin['maxLng'], $rowMaxMin['minLat'], $rowMaxMin['minLng']);
}

b. then take the diagonal (maxLat, minLng) to (minLat, maxLng) and calculate the distance using the geometry.spherical library or any algorithm you like - the earth is NOT spherical girls and boys, different models are better equiped to calculate area/distance in your region of the world (wikipedia has a great article on algorithms)

function distanceGeoPoints ($lat1, $lng1, $lat2, $lng2) {
$earthRadius = 3958.75;
$dLat = deg2rad($lat2-$lat1);
$dLng = deg2rad($lng2-$lng1);
$a = sin($dLat/2) * sin($dLat/2) +
   cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) *
   sin($dLng/2) * sin($dLng/2);
$c = 2 * atan2(sqrt($a), sqrt(1-$a));
$dist = $earthRadius * $c;
// from miles
$meterConversion = 1609;
$geopointDistance = $dist * $meterConversion;
return $geopointDistance;
}

c. depending on your canvas's dimensions, set up a zoom factor array (this is mine):

$zoomFactor[0] = null;
$zoomFactor[1] = null;
$zoomFactor[2] = null;
$zoomFactor[3] = null;
$zoomFactor[4] = null;
$zoomFactor[5] = 2000000;
$zoomFactor[6] = 1000000;
$zoomFactor[7] = 500000;
$zoomFactor[8] = 250000;
$zoomFactor[9] = 120000;
$zoomFactor[10] = 60000;
$zoomFactor[11] = 30000;
$zoomFactor[12] = 15000;
$zoomFactor[13] = 7500;
$zoomFactor[14] = 3500;
$zoomFactor[15] = 2000;
$zoomFactor[16] = 1100;
$zoomFactor[17] = 500;
$zoomFactor[18] = null;
$zoomFactor[19] = null;
$zoomFactor[20] = null;

d. then create a routine that takes the distance you got in step b and check it against array:

// zoom factor establish
$zoomFactorFinal = '';
if (($distance > 500) && ($distance < 2000000))  {
    include ('zoomFactor.php');
    for ($i=20;$i>0;$i--) {
        if (!is_null($zoomFactor[$i])) {
            if ($distance < ($zoomFactor[$i])) {
                // save until distance is smaller than
                $zoomFactorFinal .= '&z='.$i;
                $zoomInt = $i;
                $i = 0;
                //echo 'SUCESSO '.$zoomFactorFinal;
            } 
        }
    }
} else {
    if ($distance <= 500)  {
        $zoomFactorFinal .= '&z=16';
        $zoomInt = 16;
    }
    if ($distance >= 2000000)  {
        $zoomFactorFinal .= '&z=2';
        $zoomInt = 2;
    }
}

f. finally, append the $zoomFactorFinal to your googlemaps URL if you are embedding or use a variation of setZoom() method on your canvas display

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