Google maps api dot marker

Question

Currently I use a StyledMarker icon (the default bubble icon with custom colors), but I've seen that some sites use the more compact "dot" (picture of dot marker). My question is if it is possbile to replace the default bubble marker with the dot using StyledMarker? If not, how can I solve it (by the way the solution must allow dynamic coloring of the dots)?

Answer 1

You can declare the marker icon to be a symbol and customize it accordingly.

new google.maps.Marker({
    map: map,
    position: map.getCenter(),
    icon: {
        path: google.maps.SymbolPath.CIRCLE,
        fillColor: '#00F',
        fillOpacity: 0.6,
        strokeColor: '#00A',
        strokeOpacity: 0.9,
        strokeWeight: 1,
        scale: 7
    }
});

You can play with each property to achieve the desired look.

If you want something more elaborate, I made (diclaimer: It was me, as in I made it) a library to use icon fonts (such as font-awesome or material icons) to render images (using an auxiliar canvas, then getting its dataurl).

It's basically an image factory which you can use as

new google.maps.Marker({
    map: map,
    position: map.getCenter(),
    icon: MarkerFactory.autoIcon({
        label: 'f1b9',
        font: 'FontAwesome',
        color: '#CC0000',
        fontsize: 20
    })
});

You can even omit the font property and it will render the literal text you pass it. I use this to enumerate the markers sometimes.