Question

I need to color code counties on my google maps based on the markers on these locations. Anyone with some idea as to how this can be done? I am using google earth

I can create markers dynamically and show my data. Now I need to find a way to style google maps.

Answer 1

As of right now Google does not support county shading it seems. With map charts here, it lets you shade countries and states.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image/docs/gallery/new_map_charts.html

The closest I’ve got to seeing county shading is an example here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http://lazylightning.org/mncounties-sorted.kmz&ie=UTF8&z=6&om=1

You can read a little bit about how it was made here:
http://www.lazylightning.org/minnesota-county-kmz-overlay-for-google-maps

Other links that you might find useful:
http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html?openChapters=chpbound#chpbound

http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach

http://www.zonums.com/shp2kml.html