Blog ≫ 2008 ≫ Google Maps API + Thickbox

Had some trouble for a while at work with getting our google maps working with this 1 2, and I put it off for ages (telling people not to put a map in a lightbox), but today I got to the bottom of it. Don't load your map until the lightbox has loaded, by setting a timeout, like:

setTimeout( function() {
  var [map](/wiki/#map) = new GMap2( $('#[map](/wiki/#map)' ));
  [map](/wiki/#map).setCenter( new GLatLng( 0, 0 ), 0 );
  var bounds = new GLatLngBounds();
  .
  .
  .
}, 1 );

It's not exactly been bugging me for ages, but it was bugging me ages ago, and then I forgot about it. Now it's fixed! Bit of a dirty hack really.

Where'd everybody go?

  1. Removed old jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ link here.
  2. jquery lightbox thing

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