How can I have a smooth animated move between 2 Google Maps locations?

Question

When clicking from one marker to another in Google Maps, the map screen animates the move smoothly if both markers are within them initial map view but jumps if one of the marke

Answer 1

If you are using Gmaps API V2, then you can implement smooth animated move very easily by using panBy() method. You have to use fromLatLngToContainerPixel() method to find the amount of pixels to pan by.

Here is the bit of code:

var newLoc = map.fromLatLngToContainerPixel(new GLatLng(lat, lng));
map.panBy(new GSize( newLoc.x, newLoc.y ));

However, what I am trying to do is to achieve the same thing in maps API V3, but sadly fromLatLngToContainerPixel() method does not work anymore the way it did :(