fitToMarkers resists dragging about google-map

[ebidel]

Surprised I never ran into this!I can repo it on http://googlewebcomponents.github.io/google-sheets/components/google-sheets/demo.html.

The intention is that the user can still drag the map. Looks like this is from https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/google-map/blob/master/google-map.html#L668:L669. The lat/lng get updated and updateCenter() gets called as a result. This calls showCenterMarkerChanged() explicitly which does the fitToMakers stuff. There was a good reason for that call but I can't recall off the top of my head.

Interested in submitting a PR?

[levitanong]

Alright, I've made a PR! It's a simple fix, and it partially solves the issue. It will still explode if showCenterMarker is true, but that's a separate discussion on what you want the behavior to be.

The two are mutually exclusive I think. I mean, you have a marker that's supposed to stay in the center of your map all the time, and if you have other markers on the map that will change the map center position, then you'll get some pretty weird stuff.

I have three recommendations off the top of my head:

1. We can make it so that one overrides the other, and mention it in the documentation. e.g. "fitToMarkers will override showCenterMarker, whenever it's set to true." In which case a true value in one will automatically turn the other false.
2. Throw an error if the two mutually exclusive cases are set to true, and again, mention it in the documentation.
3. Do not include the centerMarker in calculations for fitToMarkers. This may sound good and correct, but it's a special case may complicate things, and we may get more weird edge cases from this.

[aidanlister]

+1

[eximius313]

I'm also experiencing the same issue!
map shakes and doesn't allow to drag it (even when zoomed in)

[rbrewer101]

Me too.
Any estimate of if/when this little weirdness might be resolved?
I'm not quite up to the task of fixing it myself, but offer gratitude to anyone who does get it resolved.

[levitanong]

To quickly fix this, have a look at google-map.html. There'll be this.updateMarkers();. Wrap it in a conditional hinged on the existence of centerMarker.

if (this.centerMarker) {
  this.updateMarkers();
}

[ebidel]

@levitanong I merged your PR. Thanks! I think your #3 makes sense. It may confuse users if the center marker is treated differently, but it's always been more of a convenience than anything else. It also existed before we had proper marker support, so maybe it's time to actually remove it.

[levitanong]

Hurrah!

[eximius313]

I'd say that #2 is more verbose than #1 (fail fast) and we don't introduce additional complexity as in #3

[rbrewer101]

Works! Thanks very much @levitanong and @ebidel.