Comments on: You Are Here (with Safari on iPhone)

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:45:23 +0000

it works great for me Steve ! I test on Android 2.1 and ios 4 and it’s ok !

Thanks a lot for your fix !

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:45:58 +0000

@Jurgen, did you also copy the marker image (http://plebeosaur.us/etc/map/blue_dot_circle.png) to your server (I’ll add that to the instructions above). I think that may solve the missing pulsating blue dot issue.

The other issue is a bit odd. I’ll see if I can replicate it here.

By: Jurgen Fechner

Jurgen Fechner — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:38:49 +0000

Hi,

Does anyone have any comments?

Best Regards
Jurgen

By: Jurgen Fechner

Jurgen Fechner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:07:32 +0000

I copied the source of the page served by this url: http://plebeosaur.us/etc/map/ and put it on two separate web servers at home. One was a Keyfocus Webserver the other is an Apache 2.2. When I go to your url with my iphone I get what I expected, a map of my location with a pulsating blue dot.
When I access the copied page with my iphone on the Keyfocus server I get the same map, a crosshair for a few seconds then that disappears and only the map remains.
I then installed Apache 2.2 and put that same page there. When accessing it with my iphone I get four javascript errors on my iphone and the page wont load at all.

What is happening here?

By: iPhone Safari Geolocation Map Update φ plebeosaur.us

iPhone Safari Geolocation Map Update φ plebeosaur.us — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:49:55 +0000

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By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:27:21 +0000

I posted a fix for the phantom markers in a new post: iPhone Safari Geolocation Map Update.

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:19:15 +0000

@Ben, @Mike, I think I found the source of the phantom image, but I'm not sure how to correct it yet. It seems that Google is now inserting a duplicate marker image with opacity 0.01. My CSS selector #map_canvas div[style*="blue_dot_circle.png"] just looks for that image in any div and then pulses the opacity. So if there are two images, one that's normally visible and one that's normally all-but-visible, they'll both start pulsing at full opacity. I thought that that 2nd marker image might be a rogue shadow, but even when adding a shadow there were 2 pulsing images on top. At this point, I'm really not sure what that 2nd image is about or why it is off center. I'll keep snooping as I have time.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:12:10 +0000

I am having the same problem using webkit to animate the custom Google maps icons. Were you able to find a solution?

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:51 +0000

i don’t find how resolving the problem but i think we can use Jquery to obtain a same result : Jquery has some interesting effects like fade, pulsate etc…

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:25:01 +0000

Ok Steve, if i find the answer i’ll post a comment here.