MapLib.net - API (beta)

MapLib API (beta)

Introduction

MapLib.net provides the following javascript API to help you embed generated pictures in your own web pages, with full flexibility.

Before using this API, you need to sign up for a Google Maps API key
For free accounts, daily requests for an individual embedded picture are limited to 1,000.

MapLib API is still in beta stage. There may be some unexpected bugs. Join MapLib Community to give feedback and discuss the API.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <title>MapLib.net JavaScript API Example</title>
    <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=abcdef"
      type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://www.maplib.net/api/api?v=1.15" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map" style="width: 500px; height: 300px"></div>
<b>Legend</b>:
<div id="legend"></div>
<b>Makers</b>:
<div id="markers"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
var mm = new Mmap(10,document.getElementById("map"),null,null,7);
mm.initMap();
mm.showMarkers();
mm.listMarkers(document.getElementById("markers"));
mm.addLegendControl(document.getElementById("legend"));
    </script>
</body>
</html>

View example

Reference

Class Mmap

Initiate this class to create a map in your web page.

Constructor

Mmap(MapId, container, latitude?, longitude?, level?, records?,orderby?) MapId: The numeric id of the requested map
container: HTML element where the map will be in, which typically a DIV element;
latitude: Optional; The latitude of center point;
longitude: Optional; The longitude of center point;
level: Optional; The zoom level which the map will be set to;
records: the amount of markers per page
orderby: the order of the markers (4: alphabetical asc; 3: alphabetical desc; 2: id asc; 1: id desc)

Methods
initMap()	Initiate and draw the requested map
showMarkers(amount?)	Fetch and show markers on the map amount: the amount of markers to be shown on the map. Leave blank for default (30 for normal users, 60 for pro users).
listMarkers(container,amount?)	List markers in a HTML element amount: the amount of markers to be shown on the map. Leave blank for default (30 for normal users, 60 for pro users).
addLegendControl(container)	Initiate the map legend

Q&A

1. How can I get the latitude, longitude and zoom level of a specified map?

Please follow the following steps to get the latitude, longitude and zoom level of a specified map:

[1]. Pan or zoom in or zoom out the map to the location as you want.

[2]. Click on the "Code" tab

[3]. Now you can find the value of longitude, latitude and zoom level in the given url.