I am looking for a script / tool which will allow me to define a route on Google Maps and then create a series of frames where the map slowly moves along at a given zoom level while drawing the (previously defined) route.
If it is hard to imagine think of a mini map/overview for a time-lapse/video of a drive in a car. The time-lapse/video shows you the view through the windshield and this minimap/overview shows you where the footage is taken on a map. This is actually what I'm going to use it for.
Does anyone know of such a tool or a better place to ask this question (if this is not a proper place)?
If it does not exist I will have to create it using the Google Maps API.
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We have implemented Google Maps in an app for tourists but we want to provide seamless offline maps. We can generate these from the OSM data and we can even display these on the Google Maps with a negative zIndex which means they generally only show when the online map tiles are not available. However there are some issues with this approach:
1/ After going offline, for a while, Google Maps shows a very poor version of it's map (i.e. if you zoom in it is very blurry).
2/ As user moves around the map, sometimes the cached tiles (poor quality usually) show up and disappear.
3/ We can't control the zoom level when offline and so sometimes our map tiles won't be shown if the user zooms too much.
Ideally we'd like to be able to know if google maps can't load a tile so we could display our own. Is this possible? Or can we fix the above issues?
Is there any way to fetch available photo spheres (within map bounds) using the Google Maps API?
I am trying to build a map like the one here, but can't figure out where to get the photo sphere data from, or if it's even possible - cannot find anything in the documentation other than standard streetview stuff.
edit: I do know that individual photo spheres can be fetched by their pano_id, but need a more efficient way to get a bunch of them onto my map. Manually creating a pano_id collection isn't an option.
I was searching the web for the past two days and I wasn't successful in finding what I want.I want to add my own place (for example my home) to the google maps and then get the coordinates of that place in order to place it in my google maps code in my website.
the only way google is showing me to do so is to add a job for my google coordinates account and then add my custom location(and of course I should pay for it).But this is not a job,I just want my place's coordinates to use in my google maps code!
ps:I've even seen people add their own location with full details of their place in the google maps and I'm pretty sure they didn't pay a penny for it(and everyone in the world can see their place!!!)
So here's the question:How can I do this without paying anything?
Go to the google map on web browser and go to the place what you want by zoom and move and at click you would see the coordnates that you may use in google map code.
No need to add you own place.
If you have a look at Google Maps and search for some place in China like Tiananmen Square for example, then drag out the little streetview man, he does not go on the roads like normal... instead there is a scattering of little blue dots where he can stand and get a view.
This is similar to a panoramio layer but much slicker, and it lets you click between photos taken within the same field of view.
This is all great, except when I turn on the streetview control with Google maps API v3 on the website I'm developing (which is about tourist destinations in China), it lets you drag the man around but then he turns grey like there is no data. There are no blue dots and he can't see anything.
I'm wondering if there is a way to turn on that same streetview panoramio mode that they have in maps.google.com? Possibly they won't let us have access to that yet....
I could add a normal panoramio layer but I am really wanting to have that really nice blue dot thing happening.
Pretty sure no. v3 of the API implements streetview with HTML5/canvas etc - ie native in the browser.
That 'lookaround' viewer, is implemented in flash.
I suppose you could try v2 of the API, that still uses a flash client.
... otherwise just add a request to the Google Maps API issue tracker - it tracks suggestions.
i'm creating a simulation model using Google maps, i have created a new KML layer and marked few areas which are dangerous to users to go through, now i want to add a moving object to resemble a person on top of it and give a warning when that object nearing the area, does any one have the idea of doing animation of that kind using Google maps?
If you are talking about a moving marker i think you can use the setPosition of the marker object in a for loop feeding it with the coords of a line let's say.