LoadPin is a function to add a marker to a map. It initializes the layer on the first call. map is an openlayers map object.

But using map.removeLayer(markers) or Markers, does not remove the markers from the map. I saw a mention of a destroy operation to do this but cant find that.

AND, how do I remove the popups?

var markers = null

function LoadPin(LL, name, description) {

    var size = new OpenLayers.Size(36, 47);

    var offset = new OpenLayers.Pixel(-(size.w / 2), -size.h);

    var icon = new OpenLayers.Icon('http://www.waze.co.il/images/home.png', size, offset);



    if (markers == null) {

        markers = new OpenLayers.Layer.Markers(Markers);

        map.addLayer(markers);

    }



    var marker = new OpenLayers.Marker(LL, icon)

    markers.addMarker(marker);

    var bounds = markers.getDataExtent();

    map.zoomToExtent(bounds);



    map.addPopup(new OpenLayers.Popup.FramedCloud(test, LL, null,

                <div style='font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.8em;'> + name + <br> + description + </div>,

                anchor = null, true, null));

}