Question

I am inserting a custom marker in Google Maps and its not pointing accurately on the map. I Think its mainly because of the design of the pointing edge of the marker.

Is there any guide on how to make a custom marker ?

i am using the following lib: http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/

// JavaScript Document
$(document).ready(function () {
    var map = new GMaps({
        div: '#map',
        lat: 13.00487,
        lng: 77.576729,
        zoom: 13,
    });

    map.addControl({
        position: 'top_right',
        text: 'Geolocate',
        style: {
            margin: '5px',
            padding: '1px 6px',
            border: 'solid 1px #717B87',
            background: '#fff'
        },
        events: {
            click: function () {
                GMaps.geolocate({
                    success: function (position) {
                        map.setCenter(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
                    },
                    error: function (error) {
                        alert('Geolocation failed: ' + error.message);
                    },
                    not_supported: function () {
                        alert("Your browser does not support geolocation");
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    });

    map.addMarker({
        lat: 13.00487,
        lng: 77.576729,
        title: 'Lima',
        icon: "http://i.imgur.com/3YJ8z.png",
        infoWindow: {
            content: '<p>HTML Content</p>'
        }
    });

});

Answer 1

What you probably want is something like this:

var image = new google.maps.MarkerImage(
    'http://i.imgur.com/3YJ8z.png',
    new google.maps.Size(19,25),    // size of the image
    new google.maps.Point(0,0), // origin, in this case top-left corner
    new google.maps.Point(9, 25)    // anchor, i.e. the point half-way along the bottom of the image
);

map.addMarker({
    lat: 13.00487,
    lng: 77.576729,
    title: 'Lima',
    icon: image,
    infoWindow: {
        content: '<p>HTML Content</p>'
    }
});