Angular-ui ui-map click event not receiving $params - angularjs

Question

I'm trying to implement Google maps in Angularjs using ui.Map (http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-map/)
I've followed the example pretty closely and the map loads, I can create a marker in the map center and the 'map-tilesloaded' event works fine.
My problem is adding a marker where the user clicks. The click function is receiving an empty $params parameter. In my controller:
$scope.newMapOptions = {
center : new google.maps.LatLng($scope.position.lat, $scope.position.lng),
zoom : 18,
mapTypeId : google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
};
$scope.getLocation = function() {
if (navigator.geolocation) {
return navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(setPosition);
}
};
$scope.addMarker = function($event, $params) {
$scope.newTingMarker = new google.maps.Marker({
map : $scope.myNewTingMap,
position : $params[0].latLng
});
};
$scope.initMap = function() {
if (!$scope.mapLoaded)
$scope.getLocation();
$scope.mapLoaded = true;
};
function setPosition(pos) {
$scope.position = {
lat : pos.coords.latitude,
lng : pos.coords.longitude
};
$scope.meMarker = new google.maps.Marker({
map : $scope.myNewTingMap,
position : new google.maps.LatLng($scope.position.lat, $scope.position.lng)
});
$scope.myNewTingMap.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(pos.coords.latitude, pos.coords.longitude));
$scope.$apply();
}
The html:
<div ui-map-info-window="myInfoWindow">
<b>Current location</b>
</div>
<div ui-map-marker="meMarker" ></div>
<div ui-map-marker="newTingMarker" ui-event="{'map-click': 'openMarkerInfo(newTingMarker)'}"></div>
<section id="newTingMap" >
<div ui-map="myNewTingMap" ui-options="newMapOptions" class="map-canvas"
ui-event="{'map-tilesloaded': 'initMap()', 'map-click': 'addMarker($event, $params)' }"></div>
</section>
$scope.addMarker should receive $event and $params where $params[0] has the latlng object. At the moment is it an empty array: []
I'm using angular 1.1.5, but I've tried using the same as the ui.Map example with no effect.
I should also note that this is in a view but putting it outside the view in the main controller makes no difference.
If I try to follow the code running from the ui-map directive I can see that the latlng object does start off in the event:
ui-map.js:
angular.forEach(eventsStr.split(' '), function (eventName) {
//Prefix all googlemap events with 'map-', so eg 'click'
//for the googlemap doesn't interfere with a normal 'click' event
google.maps.event.addListener(googleObject, eventName, function (event) {
element.triggerHandler('map-' + eventName, event);
//We create an $apply if it isn't happening. we need better support for this
//We don't want to use timeout because tons of these events fire at once,
//and we only need one $apply
if (!scope.$$phase){ scope.$apply();}
});
});
element.triggerHandler('map-' + eventName, event); ... has the latlng object in 'event' but is seems to get lost after that

Answer 1

Not sure what your issue is, I took your code and created a fiddle that works fine(something you should have done).
I did a console log when you click that logs the $params.
The most important thing to note is your code crashes at first because you reference $scope.position.lat before setting it. I updated it to default to RVA.
,
You do need to handle the case a little more gracefully.
function MapCtrl($scope, watchArray) {
var center;
if ($scope.position) {
center = new google.maps.LatLng($scope.position.lat, $scope.position.lng);
}
else {
center = new google.maps.LatLng(37.5410, 77.4329); //if null use rva
}
$scope.newMapOptions = {
center: center,
zoom: 18,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
}
...
}
Console.log:
[Ps]
v 0: Ps
> la: Q
> latLng: O
> pixel: Q
> __proto__: Ps
length: 1
> __proto__: Array[0]