Angular-google-maps: Adding custom overlays

[gotenxds]

Is there any plan to add support for custom overlays ?

If not/not in the near future, will you accept major code contributions like this?

[gotenxds]

@SebastianM
Can you please just give me a `Yes I would appreciate code contributions' or a 'No just wait till I get around to it' answer so I'l know if there is any point in working on this?

[david-mart]

@gotenxds i was just able to implement custom overlays using this example

[SebastianM]

@gorango sorry for the late answers. yes, I would love to merge a PR.

[gotenxds]

didn't have any time to work on this yet, @david-mart have you gotten any further with this?
If not I'l probly start working on this now...

BTW your example wont load for me.

[david-mart]

@gotenxds yes i was able to add a pretty deep custom overlay functionality to my app using the example above. i am working on a custom fork of this module within my application, so i can't really pull request or submit any code straight here, but i can definitely help you if you have any questions

[david-mart]

i'll try to put together a PR sometime this week

[figuerres]

@david-mart that plunker does not seem to be working... was interested but not sure what's broke.

[gotenxds]

Is there any news on this?

[ghost]

I could really use this!

[AckerApple]

For agm custom overlays please try my brand new package:
agm-overlays

[AckerApple]

@figuerres, good to see you in this issue report. Have you been having success with agm and are you still using it? It has a ton of issue reports and I'm not sure of its future.

What is your take on this package because I may fork it in the near future and run with it like the other packages you seen me do that with.

Later good fella. Thanks in advanced for your opinion on this package if you give one.

[figuerres]

@AckerApple , Hey there!

let me see....

YES we use this package and while we see some issues it does a lot right for us.

have you tried to work with the author and submit some PR's ??
the impression i had was he was a good guy and did some good work but there is a lot to cover in google maps.

at one time i told some folks from google to check this out and try and help this project as Google does not have a package like this for Angular even though google has a big hand in Angular and owns Google Maps.

what we do: adl delivery is a package delivery company so we do a lot of mapping of customer locations, our sort facilities / cross docks, we use zipcode mapping to create delivery routes and market areas. we map our sort facility to facility line haul routes and travel times.

we use the GeoJson data layer in Google maps to do most of that.
we store data in ms sql geography and use a .net package that can take a sql Geography object as input and returns a GeoJson object as output.

the #1 issue we have with AGM maps / Google maps is getting the map to center and zoom correctly
we have a few tricks to get it mostly right but it's not a good as we want it to be.

for our internal operations we want to make some displays kind of like uber does on the phone app
a status display to show us where trucks and packages are at and what routes are having delivery issues.
that is a long term "want to do it" item.

[AckerApple]

1. I was thinking to work with the package owner but I think the sheer volume of issues has chased him off? Hard to know just guessing by issue report responses. Also since this package is called agm/core, it seemed intended for core functionality only and overlays should be its own package

2. To fix the zoom issue, I’ve begun using fitBounds and I wonder if that would work for y’all. It’s used in my agm-overlays package.

Denny, thank you good friend. I will pitch in as it benefits my world to help agm. I see a lot I can bring to the table

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