Question

I’ve 2 function as below:

function addMarker() {
    marker = new google.maps.Marker({
        position: Gpoint,
        map: map,
        draggable: true,
        animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP
    });
    map.panTo(Gpoint);

    google.maps.event.addListener(marker, "rightclick", 
    function (point) { 
    showContextMarker(point.latLng); } ); 
    $('.contextmenu').remove();
};

function delMarker() { marker.setMap(null); $('.contextmenu').remove(); };

So, as may understand I have a Context Menu having “Delete Marker” option on it.
I am binding a “rightclick” listener during adding a marker, to show this menu.

Everything is working without any problem till this moment.

But when I try to click on a marker to delete; it is effecting only the last added marker.
When I try again; nothing happens.

So my idea is to get the clicked marker’s id (or something that may well be useful) and run this deleting function according to this.

Briefly; I want to delete the marker that I clicked on, from a map having multiple markers.

Do you have any approach to solve this problem ?

Thanks in advance!

SOLVED!

Here is the solution. Thank you Fatih. it was impossible without your guidance:

var id;
var markers = {};
var addMarker = function () {
    marker = new google.maps.Marker({ 
        position: Gpoint,
        map: map,
        draggable: true,
        animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP
    });
    map.panTo(Gpoint);
    id = marker.__gm_id
    markers[id] = marker; 

    google.maps.event.addListener(marker, "rightclick", function (point) { id = this.__gm_id; delMarker(id) });
}

var delMarker = function (id) {
    marker = markers[id]; 
    marker.setMap(null);
}

Calling delete function by: delMarker(id)
Ps: “Right clicking is enough on this case”

Thank you!

Answer 1

Working Sample on jsFiddle

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Google Maps doesn’t manage your markers. So all your markers should be managed by yourself.

Make a global marker object and push all markers to this object. And give unique id to each marker when getting a marker instance. Then when you want to delete a marker take its id and find this marker in global marker object and finally call this marker instance’s setMap method with passing null argument.

Also I’ve added a demo that works on jsFiddle. Code is heavily documented.

Your psuedo code should be like this. For more detailed code please look the demo.

var currentId = 0;
var uniqueId = function() {
    return ++currentId;
}

var markers = {};
var createMarker = function() {
    var id = uniqueId(); // get new id
    var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ // create a marker and set id
        id: id,
        position: Gpoint,
        map: map,
        draggable: true,
        animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP
    });
    markers[id] = marker; // cache created marker to markers object with id as its key
    return marker;
}
var deleteMarker = function(id) {
    var marker = markers[id]; // find the marker by given id
    marker.setMap(null);
}