So I am using gmap3 to dynamically load my map marker icon based on user image profile photo. Ideally, I want to have some custom styling on the marker icon image, and each marker icon image is different from user to user.
Here are two difficulties I have encountered:
Google map load marker icon as canvas (correct me if I am wrong), so it is not an image tag on DOM, thus I don't know how to add css styling to it
Even if it loads it as image, I couldn't find a way to define a callback function with gmap3 (and use jQuery to style the image selector) when the custom icon is completely loaded on DOM. (I tried liveQuery, it's a horrible idea, and I've tried google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(map, 'idle', function(), which didn't work out well.
Here are some of my approaches:
I added animation property to the marker, and pass a random string to that (which should produce an error), and this makes icon loaded as an image tag on DOM.
I then use setTimeout (because I do not know where to define callback function on gmap3 after the marker is loaded) to select image css, and add a background-image css property to that transparent icon image, so I can have a custom user profile image on marker
Please help
to apply css on a marker, you can try the following method to include var marker = new MarkerWithLabel. Link