udacity/ud864

Public repository for code examples used in Udacity's Google Maps APIs course (https://www.udacity.com/course/google-maps-apis--ud864).

ud864's Issues

Autocomplete search box not limiting results to within map bounds

I came across an issue in the Autocomplete portion of the course. I was running my autocomplete code to display pizza restaurants and noticed that when I typed in 'pizza', it would zoom the map all the way out to show North America continent and show international listings instead of inside NYC area. It worked fine if I typed in 'pizza NYC' though. At first I thought I had made a mistake in my code, so I copied over the code sample from github repo. Same thing happened again with the code from github.

It's my understanding that in the code, when you call searchBox.setBounds(map.getBounds()) in the code, it would display searchBox results to be within NYC area, not internationally.

There is no 'setMarker' method

In the line 83 from 'Project_Code_3_WindowShoppingPart1.html' file, the method infowindow.setMarker(null); not exist.

The correct is set the attribute infowindow.marker = null; to unbound marker object of infowindow.

Info windows on marker won't reopen unless you click on another marker.

Project_Code_3_WindowShoppingPart1.html
line 77 if (infowindow.marker != marker) {

if you click on one marker to view the the title, close and try to reopen it won't open again unless you click on another marker.

Better solution ?
// Check to make sure the infowindow is not set to the same marker, but if it is, and the infowindow was close, reopen it.
if (infowindow.marker != marker || infowindow.setMarker == null) {

Suggest replace Marker.Image with Icon

To create the custom markers the code uses the Google Maps Marker.Image object -- but that has been replaced by the Google Maps Icon object. There is very little documentation about Marker.Image which can cause some confusion for students. Suggest that the code be refactored to use Icon which has better documentation.

05_Interpreting Geocoding Responses.html issue

The value of "Red Fort, Delhi" says ZERO_RESULTS. Any idea why it would say this?