I need to implement marker clustering and found a tutorial in the official Google Maps Documentation, but when following the link to the MarkerClusterer repo it says its no longer maintained and kept for historical purpose only.
Should I use something else, or is this safe to use?
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Is there a geolocation API part of google closure (ultimately for use in ClojureScript) ?
I've been looking for it, but all I can find is something that looks like an old shim.
If there is none, is it because Google doesn't use that feature of web browsers (they find our location using other means), or because the browser API doesn't require that (already unified), and what would be the best alternative in ClojureScript ?
Nothing is in Closure for this right now. Generally, Closure only wraps these native APIs when there are cross-browser compatibility issues, is potential for a polyfill, or potential for improvement. I'm not personally too familiar with these APIs, but my guess is it's not in Closure because it's pretty standardized across the browsers that implement it.
The "shim" link you provided is what's called an externs file. It's used in conjunction with the Closure Compiler to avoid renaming certain properties. See this resource for more info.
This might sound very dumb question but I am just confused. I am quite new in Google Maps and I had gone through two different types of mapping object namely GMap2 and google.maps.Map. What is the difference and which is better?
Thanks in advance!
GMap2 is from previous version of google maps framework (version 2.x). Google has completely rewritten its maps javascript library, making it more lightweight and compatible with mobile devices. It's version 3.
If you are a beginner, start with version 3 (google.maps.Map)
i'm need to develop and web application that uses maps, and i have two option in my to reach the goal. Google maps or bing maps, my concern it's witch it's better about
Documentation it's very important
Implementation with a Web application develop in .net
Fast learning curve
i need recommendations because for my point of view both are a completed tools for solve my problem. Thanks
I strongly recommend Google Maps.
Fabulous documentation
Code Playground
Very fast learning curve
With the new v3 api you don't need a api key
Cheers
take a look at our series of articles comparing aspects of both, and Ill admit up front I like bing more but have tried to be as impartial as possible:
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/02/ajax-mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-update-pushpin-display-performance/
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/12/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-update-api-download-sizes/
and the original posts:
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/12/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-part-1-introduction/
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/12/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-part-2-licensing/
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-part-4-developer-support-community/
I'm searching for complete explanations about how to use geokit-rails3. I've found loads for rails2 but not for rails3. Does any of you have a simple and complete tutorial about how to display a google map on Rails3, from A to Z ?
Thanks a lot for your help !
Geokit (and geokit-rails3) can be thought of as geocoding utility libraries, useful for finding and storing the locations of model instances and for performing location-based searches, but they do not include mapping support.
For Google Maps mapping in rails 3 there are a few choices, but no clear winner. At the moment, most end up just using the Google Maps javascript API version 3 directly. I found Google's Maps API documentation very clear and easy to use.
Is it possible to convert a standard PHP based widget integrated with google maps API to a flash based widget? If yes, what are the ways?
I expect it will generally be a manual process, because the code styles are so different, code-to-code conversion would be likely to be difficult/fragile/error-prone. The only automatic way that I could conceive of is a html-to-flash-ui conversion, which would get you a static look or prototype to start with, but wouldn't help you in the creation of the active/reactive/dynamic elements of the new flash widget.
A quick google search brings up a few paid references to html to flash conversion, as well as a few pages mentioning some libraries that might be worth pursuing, if just as a shortcut to creating a prototype that you would have to refine:
http://drawlogic.com/2008/01/11/as3-flash-to-html-conversion-library-htmlwrapper/
and here:
http://osflash.org/flashml
Since there is one free library, there may quite likely be others as well.