Im currently thinking of making floor plan direction for my school. It has 2 floors and various portables (Classroom outside).
The floor plan im trying to utilize.
I tried physically annotating each individual classrooms to classrooms. But this is very tedious. Using google maps? or html? can I make a simple floor plan page that links all the classrooms just like google maps?
Imagine, a user wants to get from room 123 to room 153. The user wants to use the application to show the route on the floorplan of how to get from that particular room to the other.
The floor plan direction site is going to give the user option of from then to and it will show the direction.
For a 100 room school, there could be possibly 1000 ways to get from there to there.
Is there any way of doing this? Given the fact that the application would need to pretty much know exactly where all the possible routes are, this is something pretty much exactly like Google maps.
It would be great if we could use Google Map's api to create directions around a custom floor-plan, but I'm pretty sure this is not possible!
Anyone know any easier way of achieving this possibility?
Any advise on what direction to take would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
JeremyZh
Looked at https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/indoormaps/? There is also an app to map out the building with your phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.insight.surveyor&hl=de
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I need a bit of counseling. I´m trying to reproduce one of M.C. Escher´s models in Actionscript, but I´m not entirely sure about where to begin. Ideally, I´d want to make something from his Circle Limit series look somewhat like this: http://vimeo.com/4154382
Could anyone provide any pointers as in what approach should I take? I am not an expert coder, so anything would help.
Thanks in advance,
Garfeel M.D.
The different copies of a hyperbolic transformation are related to one another via Möbius transformations which leave the circle fixed. You can represent them as transformations
(a+bi)z + (c+di)
z |-> ----------------
(c-di)z + (a-bi)
You might want to represent the switch from circle to half plane as a Möbius transformation as well, to avoid numeric issues with simple zooming.
I have tools available to make hyperbolic ornaments from Escher ornaments, and zoom into them in real time. But Escher isn't public domain yet, and in my experience the Escher foundation is less than enthusiastic in granting permission for derived works. So if you get ther OK, or decide on some other artist (possibly starting from a Euclidean ornament), feel free to contact me by e-mail to discuss this further.
I recently was a jury member foir an ornament competition where some submissions were hyperbolized from Euclidean drawings. Gaining permissions for those would likely be easier than from the Escher foundation.
I run the RPG campaign called Yarona: Darkness Ascending. I also run the site http://diebot.org/ and I want to incorporate what's found at http://www.uesp.net/oblivion/map/obmap.shtml using my own continents, but where do I start?
Ok, I admit, Frank has a good point, I didn't consider that the external link could go offline 3 months down the road, then my question looses key information. My apologies.
What I have is a campaign that takes place on the world known as Yarona. I also have a large, world-atlas style map/graphic. what I want is to have a Google Maps style interface so my players can zoom out to continents, or zoom in as tight as city blocks, maybe even include "Special Place Pins".
Depa suggests that I try to get help from Google first. I did try that. The only thing I found was about maps of Earth, Earth and more Earth. Depa also suggested I include the code I've used so far, and I would have done so. The thing is that, to reiterate (and please forgive me if I seem flippant):
Where Do I Start?
I want to use Google Maps or another Map like Openstreetmap to make an interactive site where people can see the stats of crime in their own area... I want to put in these stats by myself via the backend. The front-end must be something like this:
http://www.police.act.gov.au/crime-and-safety/crime-statistics.aspx
Where do I start with this? Is this a polygon? I have read the Google Maps API but I could not find a clue to make something like this. How did they put the stats in it? How can I color the area's and divide them? What did they use? Any direction would be very welcome.
PS: I want to have a detailed map. So no countries or cities, but the area's in a certain city have to be highlighted.
What I can suggest is that first study the developer documentation thoroughly for Google API v3.Basics will help a lot.
For pointers to your needs, you can get help in defining polygons and coloring them at this link https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays#Polygons and also check out the demo examples in the code.
For a 3 point polygon, here is an example https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/polygon-simple
You can define your polygons by adding points around your area. There are many tools available to find your pointer locations like http://martinove.dk/maptools/polytool/
In order to potray data, you can use markerclusterer. These examples can help:
http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclusterer/examples/
I have a set of addresses, lets say restaurants, which I would like to plot on Google Maps and then make it possible for the user to rate them. I would also like to provide a search feature where the user can filter the restaurants by e.g. rating, food choice etc.
I have created the database architecture to store the restaurants and ratings, but how should I go around creating the overlay?
Are there already a feature where I can pinpoint an address and then supply my own html-code/iframe or alike, or do I need to create the overlay from the bottom myself?
I have looked at the overlay API, but I can't seem to figure out what is the best way to go around doing it?
I found out that the InfoBox would work.
thanks for all the help the last few days. I'm hoping someone knows this one.
I'm looking to dynamically create a heatmap of data based on user input, then color certain states based on the response. Like a poll for voting, for example. I'd like to do something like this...
http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/
What is going to be the easiest way to do this?
The Google Chart API also offers maps.
Here's a (completely made up) example:
Another very easy solution is OpenHeatMap.com. They support pegging data to a variety of map shapes, including US states.
OpenLayers is a javascript library for displaying tiled maps and related elements (polygon, line, etc) on top of these tiles.
It supports a number of back-ends for map data, including google's data.
Samples are available here