Google / Bing Maps Show All Cities

Question

Trying to find a way without zooming in real close to tell Google or Bing maps to show all cities. Bing does a good job for the most part but still when you zoom in it shows a whole different set of cities.

I have a large monitor this map is going to be sitting on and really need it to show more than just the cities it shows on for example zoom level 8 or 9 on Google. Right now I load in roughly 2900 different locations and mark them on the map so I am trying to do it via the API no just going to maps.google.com

Has anyone come up against this issue and found a fix? Did some searching here as well on Google and maybe looking it up wrong but haven't found anyone looking for something like this.

Answer 1

Hi you can do that by using the Image Map Type API by implementing the mapType interface. Please refer to this link and implement the code in the way given in the example, replacing details with your specifications.

Hope this will help!!

Answer 2

I couldnt find either enough information to get "mapType" to work how I was wanting or it just doesnt do it. The goal was to be at lets say a zoom level of 8 and see every city in the US. I couldnt get any of the suggestions to do that.

Here is what I found that allowed me to do it my self though: http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/

Basically I put in a transparent marker so it didnt show up then put info boxes with the names. This actually worked really well for me because I can zoom out 100% and still see all the names. Although at that level they would be overlapping being able to zoom in and out a few ticks and still see everything is great.