GMaps Plugin provides a range of icon styles to choose from base on your business requirements. These highly compressed graphics ensure maximum performance when rendering larger volumes of data.
Marker Series Style
Choose from over 20 popular marker icons styles for each individual series. Styles are only available when you choose the address/latlong option on the General Tab. Icon styles can be
Heat map icon styles enable the visualization of density of latitude and longitude points on a map. As the number of data points increase in a specific area, the color intensity will increase. The heat map icon style currently includes pre-defined fill types that can be layered across multiple series. Like icons, heat maps can use dynamic icon sizing.
Heat map/Density Map Style
Heat map data points, can contain an additional measure, heat map intensity data, to control the color intensity of each data point. Like labels and values, binding heat map intensity data will require one cell per data point.
Marker Key Property
Marker Key Property allows you to define 1 key per data point within a series. A key can contain a specific marker key to display a standard GMaps Plugin icon, or a URL to display a custom icon. View the Standard Key table for a complete list of available icons.
Other Ways to Change Marker Styles
Another way to dynamically change icons is through the Alerts Tab. If you enable alerts for a series, icon keys are over-written. View Alerts Tab for more information.
Custom Icons
Custom icons are defined using the Icon Key property. For each data point you will define a URL to a SWF, JPG, PNG (supports transparency), or GIF. GMaps Plugin will NOT embed any custom images in the SWF when compiled. Custom URLs can be mixed with standard GMaps Plugin icon keys.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
To ensure consistency, GMaps Plugin makes custom icon requests in lower case regardless how you input your values. This lowercase transformation is also applied to custom icon URLs. If your custom icon file names include capital letters, you may need to re-name your files for compatibility.
Example of a working URL
http://gmapsplugin.net/testing/test.png
Example of a non-working URL
http://gmapsplugin.net/testing/Test.png
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