I am interested in contributing my images to Google Maps. I have quite a few of them (few thousands). However, I cannot find any satisfactory method to do it. I find it time consuming and cumbersome to contribute images from the Maps, contributor page. Where you can only do it one by one, plus I have to find the images among others that I am not willing to contribute that live in my Google Albums account.
I wonder is there an API that allows me to upload images with an embedded location (e.g. GPS tag in exif) in bulk?
Or maybe there is a contributor method I am not aware of - like if I can create a photo album and somehow tell Google please use those images on a map, that would be grand!
Thank you for your help.
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I need to show a newspaper reach on my website based on postal codes. I have read that Google Maps doesn't have an API for it, so I tried to find some alternatives.
However, I found nothing. So I am asking you, what would be the best and fastest thing to do in this situation? Are there any vector maps that have the administrative boundaries already made? And that can be connected with postal codes?
Google maps example of what I need
It seems like your purpose is marketing. On your website, you want people to see the coverage area / newspaper reach, so you only need images. Here is an answer, according to that assumption.
I suggest you make the exact images that will work best for you. (This is a common job for designers on many web development teams, and if you are having trouble creating high-quality images, I'm sure you can find someone who is skilled with it.)
Using Google (example search), you can find various free web applications that allow you to annotate maps. Save or screenshot your images and post them on your website.
Alternatively, using Google Maps, you can search for your postal code and screenshot the results. If you have multiple codes, you'll need to use an image editing program to combine them.
I checked this but as far as I understand this means the place/location becomes available to everyone. Can I add places that only my web-app will see? And perhaps allow some places to be seen only by certain users ... ?
Also - what is the thing with the API key: I did not notice any recent talk about it, but I understood that you have to use one now. Am I correct?
One last thing: how customizable this API really is? Can I add/remove places and their descriptions and perhaps make places custom-clickable (I see you can add markers etc link? I only started digging into GoogleMaps API so I am rushing this a bit, but answers would be very helpful so I can kickstart my developing.
The forum on the Google Maps JavaScript API group referred my question to Stack Overflow so here goes--
I'm looking to place markers on a Google map that when clicked display a streetview panorama (a "photosphere") of that location. Each panorama was stitched together from photos I've taken personally and is saved on my computer i.e. not currently publicly viewable on Google maps.
I've searched through this guide:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/streetview
for help but to no avail (I thought the "Providing Custom StreetView Panoramas" section might have been helpful but it didn't seem relevant, unless I misunderstood what it was saying).
I'm aware that Google recently introduced a new way to upload personally-made photospheres for public display on Google maps (see: https://www.google.com/maps/views/home?gl=us&hl=en-us), but this is not what I want to do.
Anyway I'd really appreciate recommendations for tutorials that might help me with this.
Thanks.
This is what you need :
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/streetview-custom-simple
It has the sample code. Just make changes to use your image and you are good to go.
for the new company site, they want a textbox that has an address, once the person clicks search a google map should appear with lots of points on that area. These points are places pre-defined in a database.
Is there any way I can implement this? A great example of this is on laterooms.com:
http://www.laterooms.com/en/k16296355_manchester-hotels.aspx
Thanks
I believe what you want is a mashup between simple geocoding (example available here):
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-simple
And places (example available here)
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/place-search
And you should be good to go.
you will find quite some good infos on this page here: see the examples and see what you can do with the code
https://developers.google.com/maps/
Is it possible to make zones in google maps, when provided with the zipcodes?
If it is possible I would really like some links to information about it :)
These is no simple way to accomplish this in Google Maps. You'll have to create your own GPolygons or custom tile layer. The site you noted in your comment has good examples of several different ways to accomplish this.
You can get zip code boundary data here.