Most of the Architecture diagrams are in Google docs as Google Drawings. Like to export to other tools like draw.io or lucidchart.com. can you please suggest the best way to do that
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Google have decided to replace their Map Style tool with the Cloud-base Maps Styling.
The new Beta tool allows you to import JSON map styling, but it provides no way of exporting a map style created with the Beta tool.
A colleague of mine has created a custom Map Style, but now we need to copy it into another project, but there appears no way to do this. We can duplicate the style, but only into the same project.
Is there any way around this, eg. a GCP console command.
I've tried inspecting the network traffic to see if I can grab the config, but it's in a completely different format that can't be exported.
Edit: It may appear I've done no research on this question, but the fact is that because it's referring to a Beta GCP tool, there is very little information available on its use other than:
A blog post
A sidebar which concentrates on the publishing side
All the Maps API docs refer to using a Map ID, which isn't the problem here.
Another Edit:I've created an feature request, in case anyone is interested...
Disclaimer: I am just getting started with Google (My) Maps and I feel like I must really be missing something fundamental.
I have a map built with Google My Maps that I would like to work on using the JavaScript API. Amongst other things, I was looking at the examples from github, but I did not manage find a "decent" way.
Is it possible to directly read/write from/to My Maps, or is the KML export the only option to work on My Maps data using a custom application?
I have a web application where I want to show the car patrolling on the Geo map. Is it possible to integrate QGIS map for web application.
You can export the QGIS map in kml and then load the kml maps in google maps I think this is the simplest way.
For QGIS you can export your layer in KML with right click on the layer, then save as format Keyhole markup language.
For import KML in google maps you can see this google developer sample
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/layer-kml
There are many ways to achieve this. The simplest is to use the plugin qgis2leaf. There are many howtos and videos about it, one of them is Leaflet Web Maps with qgis
EDIT: In answer to a comment, to install qgis2leaf, as here:
Go to menu Plugins ‣ Manage and Install Plugin
Search for "qgis2leaf" (if it is not on list, try to enable Show also experimental plugins on the Settings tab)
Select "qgis2leaf" and then... INSTALL!
I've been swimming through searches and tutorials and guides and references for days, and I can't seem to find a good way to generate google docs via Java.
I can generate/import .txt files as regular google doc files successfully with java using the drive api, but that's only text files; I need to at least include unordered lists and links in the doc for it to be useful.
My next attempt would be to generate a .rtf or a .doc and then try to import that into google docs, but before I embark on such a project, I wanted to ask you guys first. I also see the realtime api, but it looks like it doesn't specifically deal with docs, just arbitrary data.
What's the recommended way to upload a new google doc with lists and links and stuff?
Thanks!
Probably the simplest import format would be HTML. Just set convert=true and you should be good to go.
There is no stand-alone API for creating or manipulating the contents of Google Docs files. As you've found, you can create documents in other formats and import them with the Drive API.
If you don't need to work in Java, the other option is to use Google Apps Script, which provides a service for creating and manipulating Google Docs files. More information in this guide.
Is it possible to use my own map instead of google maps for my app. How can I do that...Where should I look?
I think you need Open Street Maps (OSM). I have a little GPS app (Maverick Pro) on my Droid, and it can use 3 types of maps: google, bing, and "OSM". The latter seems to be what you need:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page
You would need a few things:
A source for data about your geography, in the US see the TIGER Line data published by the Census Bureau.
Software to render the geo data into maps that are visually meaningful, for example Mapnik. Use something like OpenLayers to generate the
movability and nice user features people expect.
Software to deliver the rendered maps efficiently to your users, ie TileCache.
There is a nice summary of this FOSS approach here: http://m.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps
You may want to check out MapTiler, an open source map tiling tool for Google Maps (and other mapping systems) which runs on Windows and Mac OS X.
MapTiler will automate the tiling process for you through a simple GUI wizard, and in addition, once the tiling process is finished, it will also generate a simple HTML viewer where you can see the results immediately.
Custom Map Tile Overlays are quite an advanced topic in the Google Maps API (even the documentation will warn you in red about this). However, I am sure you will be able to use and understand the HTML viewer of MapTiler.
PostGIS, Geoserver, GeoWebCache, OpenLayers, + GeoEXT gets you all the software you need.
Data is up to you and some of the examples above are good ideas.