React-google-maps: MarkerClusterer images and others are broken due to google-maps-utility-library-v3 moving to github

[pirate]

Since google code is shutting down, google has moved their utility library from Google Code to github:

Images urls pointing to their old library no longer work, and will have to be changed, e.g.:

http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclustererplus/images/m2.png

to
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlemaps/v3-utility-library/master/markerclustererplus/images/m2.png

Although ideally there should be an option to let the user self-host them so this doesn't happen again.

[ghost]

There is option to self-host the markers. Just set the imagePath prop.

From docs:

@property {string} [imagePath=MarkerClusterer.IMAGE_PATH]

• The full URL of the root name of the group of image files to use for cluster icons.
• The complete file name is of the form imagePathn.imageExtension
• where n is the image file number (1, 2, etc.).

This works for me (both absolute or relative is fine):

<MarkerCluster imagePath="./path/to/clusters/m" />

[pirate]

Cool, thanks! I should've checked the docs before mentioning the self-hosting bit. The default URLs are still broken though, so I'll leave this ticket open for now.

[wedneyyuri]

Is there any open pull request about this?

[pirate]

What's curious is that the string google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com only exists in commented form in this repo, which makes me think the URL is being dynamically loaded somehow through some google library. I think we have to find the source of whatever library is loading it and fix it there instead of in this repo.

[ghost]

@wedneyyuri nope

@pirate This project has marker-clusterer-plus as a dependency. There you can find the hardcoded, dead url.

[pirate]

Thanks for the pointer @11th. @wedneyyuri I just opened a PR to fix it: https://github.com/mikesaidani/marker-clusterer-plus/pull/2

[pirate]

https://github.com/tomchentw/react-google-maps/pull/259 closes this issue (but we cant merge it until @mikesaidani merges https://github.com/mikesaidani/marker-clusterer-plus/pull/3)

[mikesaidani]

Hello guys,

I just published the new version to NPM. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@pirate Thanks for all the efforts :)

Cheers,
Mike

[tomchentw]

Published v4.10.2. Thanks to @11th, @pirate, @wedneyyuri and @mikesaidani !

We're also looking for maintainers. Involve in #266 to help strengthen our community!

[doubleoevan]

Might want to update this example page so people know that cluster markers are back :) http://react-google-maps.tomchentw.com/#/addons/marker-clusterer?_k=zvrnxa

[tomchentw]

@doubleoevan a PR is welcomed!