Google Maps - Create Marker And Make It Fade Away

I'd like to create a marker and then have it fade away over the course of about 5 seconds. Any suggestions on how I could do this?

Solution 1:

There is no direct why to do this with the API, though there a probably a few ways you do something like it. One, you could make a bunch of images with varying opacity and set the icon for the marker a bunch of times within the 5 seconds. Two, you could use the vector overlays (e.g. polygon), which have the opacity options, instead of markers.