Google Maps

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14	Marker Clustering: Handling Many Markers on the Map

In Chapter 7, you learned how to use markers to identify features on the map. You have also seen how to handle the click event on a marker, and you’ve learned several methods of displaying additional information about the selected marker. The preceding chapters included examples of handling markers on a map, even from within Windows applications.

There’s a special, yet rather common, situation that I haven’t discussed yet: how to handle maps with too many markers. More often than not, maps contain multiple markers. Displaying a few markers on the map is a simple process, but what if you want to mark a large number of features on the map? Technically, you can add any number ...