Question

I find it strange that no one needed this before (I assume this, because I didn’t find anything about this subject …).

Anyways, I want to put a div instead of a marker on a map. Is this possible? I did that before in Actionscript like this: markerOptions.icon = new customDisplayObject(); You were able to give some options to the marker and define a DisplayObject to it.

So what I want now is that I can put:

<div>
    <p>Some text.</p>
</div>

instead of a marker on the map.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your assumption is wrong, you may create a custom overlay which may contain HTML-markup.

Start your research at OverlayView

edit: replaced old link: Google Developers: Overlay

Sample that draws a custom image on a map