asynchronous loading of google-maps-API
see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14184956/async-google-maps-api-v3-undefined-is-not-a-function/14185834#14185834
HTML
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3&sensor=false"></script>
<div id="map_wrapper">
<div id="map_canvas" class="mapping"></div>
</div>
CSS
#map_wrapper {
height: 500px;
}
#map_canvas {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
JavaScript
$.get('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97162408/crashdata.csv', function(data) {
function initialize() {
var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
var mapOptions = {
mapTypeId: 'roadmap'
};
// Display a map on the page
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), mapOptions);
map.setTilt(45);
// Multiple Markers
var markers = [];
// Info Window Content
var infoWindowContent = [];
data = csvToArray(data);
data.forEach(function(item) {
markers.push([item.LGA_NAME, parseFloat(item.Lat), parseFloat(item.Long)]);
infoWindowContent.push([item.Information]);
});
// Display multiple markers on a map
var infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow(),
marker, i;
// Loop through our array of markers & place each one on the map
for (i = 0; i < markers.length - 1; i++) {
console.log(markers[i][1]);
var position = new google.maps.LatLng(markers[i][1], markers[i][2]);
bounds.extend(position);
marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position: position,
map: map,
title: markers[i][0]
});
// Allow each marker to have an info window
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', (function(marker, i) {
return function() {
infoWindow.setContent(infoWindowContent[i][0]);
infoWindow.open(map, marker);
}
})(marker, i));
// Automatically center the map fitting all markers on the screen
map.fitBounds(bounds);
}
// Override our map zoom level once our fitBounds function runs (Make sure it only runs once)
var boundsListener = google.maps.event.addListener((map), 'bounds_changed', function(event) {
this.setZoom(14);
google.maps.event.removeListener(boundsListener);
});
}
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