Mapstraction - Jul 2009 - How do I make Marker popups respect map borders?

I''m using mapstraction with cloudmade on a drupal site.  My markers
display correctly on the map and have popups.  The last hurdle I have is to
force the popups to respect the borders of the map and only "popup" on
viewable map space.  Is there some option for this I''m missing?

Here''s a screen capture of what I''m referring too:
http://skitch.com/emackn/b2wg4/marker-popup-outside-map

Thanks.
-- 
Eric Mckenna
Software Engineer
Phase2 Technology
emckenna @ phase2technology dot com

www.phase2technology.com
Web solutions that fit your business.

Eric Mckenna wrote:
> I''m using mapstraction with cloudmade on a drupal site.  My
markers display correctly on the map and have popups.  The last hurdle I have is
to force the popups to respect the borders of the map and only "popup"
on viewable map space.  Is there some option for this I''m missing?
>
>    
I think this perhaps a problem with CloudMade''s API. Are you seeing the
same problem with other providers?
> Here''s a screen capture of what I''m referring too:
> http://skitch.com/emackn/b2wg4/marker-popup-outside-map
>
> Thanks.
>    

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Agreed--I think it''s Cloudmade related. I''ve forwarded this on
to
Vladimir from Cloudmade, who sometimes posts to this list. Hopefully  
he can weigh in about it.
--Adam
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On Jul 23, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:
> Eric Mckenna wrote:
>> I''m using mapstraction with cloudmade on a drupal site.  My
markers
>> display correctly on the map and have popups.  The last hurdle I  
>> have is to force the popups to respect the borders of the map and  
>> only "popup" on viewable map space.  Is there some option for
this
>> I''m missing?
>>
>>
> I think this perhaps a problem with CloudMade''s API. Are you
seeing
> the same problem with other providers?
>
>> Here''s a screen capture of what I''m referring too:
>> http://skitch.com/emackn/b2wg4/marker-popup-outside-map
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Andrew Turner
> m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner
> b: http://highearthorbit.com w: http://geocommons.com
> Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography
>
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I tried a few of the others and OpenLayers was the only other one to have this
problem, which makes sense since cloudmade uses OpenLayers.
I think this example, http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/markers.html, could
help me, but I don''t see anything that specifies how the popups appear,
seems like the popups/markers account for the map boundary by default.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Turner" <ajturner at highearthorbit.com>
To: "Eric Mckenna" <emckenna at phase2technology.com>
Cc: mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:37:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Mapstraction] How do I make Marker popups respect map borders?

Eric Mckenna wrote:
> I''m using mapstraction with cloudmade on a drupal site.  My
markers display correctly on the map and have popups.  The last hurdle I have is
to force the popups to respect the borders of the map and only "popup"
on viewable map space.  Is there some option for this I''m missing?
>
>    
I think this perhaps a problem with CloudMade''s API. Are you seeing the
same problem with other providers?
> Here''s a screen capture of what I''m referring too:
> http://skitch.com/emackn/b2wg4/marker-popup-outside-map
>
> Thanks.
>    

-- 
Andrew Turner
m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner
b: http://highearthorbit.com w: http://geocommons.com
Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography


-- 
Eric Mckenna
Software Engineer
Phase2 Technology
direct:   703.548.6050,110
emckenna at phase2technology.com

www.phase2technology.com
Web solutions that fit your business.

I found soemthing works for me.  
By setting popup.panMapIfOutOfView in the Marker.prototype.toOpenLayers method
of mapstraction.js,
4235a4236
>         popup.panMapIfOutOfView = true;
it at least pans the map for the popup now.  

Is there a better way to set this attribute outside of mapstraction.js?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Turner" <ajturner at highearthorbit.com>
To: "Eric Mckenna" <emckenna at phase2technology.com>
Cc: mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:37:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Mapstraction] How do I make Marker popups respect map borders?

Eric Mckenna wrote:
> I''m using mapstraction with cloudmade on a drupal site.  My
markers display correctly on the map and have popups.  The last hurdle I have is
to force the popups to respect the borders of the map and only "popup"
on viewable map space.  Is there some option for this I''m missing?
>
>    
I think this perhaps a problem with CloudMade''s API. Are you seeing the
same problem with other providers?
> Here''s a screen capture of what I''m referring too:
> http://skitch.com/emackn/b2wg4/marker-popup-outside-map
>
> Thanks.
>    

-- 
Andrew Turner
m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner
b: http://highearthorbit.com w: http://geocommons.com
Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography


-- 
Eric Mckenna
Software Engineer
Phase2 Technology
direct:   703.548.6050,110
emckenna at phase2technology.com

www.phase2technology.com
Web solutions that fit your business.