I am Public History major, mapping historical buildings in Annapolis MD. I made a Google Spreadsheet with the 1,415 historic properties and all documentation from fed and state databases. I am not a coder. I want to turn this into a mobile walking tour map where people can choose the type of house from the legend, like all Victorian Homes, or all Colonial Homes, and have them plotted to view and walk to.
My questions are:
1. Is it possible to choose a text column, like primary style: Victorian, and make it the legend?
2. Can I add audio files to a fusion table, so I can add stories about the property or the person who build the property, so people can listen to the story?
3. It there a way to turn this map into an app?
Again, I am not a coder, but I am taking two classes next semester to learn about making apps (HTML5), and I need to know if this is even possible, and if you have any stuff I can read that will help a laymen, I'd appreciate it.
Here is the link to the fusion table: Historic Annapolis Map (https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1RUffU8cRaz6o_1XPlH8XyhGLT6PB04v2ly6OAec)
Thanks.
Melanie
Is it possible to choose a text column, like primary style: Victorian, and make it the legend?
You could do this with some coding, but the automatic legends only work for marker icons when you use the bucketing approach rather than storing the icon names in a column,
Can I add audio files to a fusion table, so I can add stories about the property or the person who build the property, so people can listen to the story?
Sure, as long as they are hosted on YouTube or Vimeo.
It there a way to turn this map into an app?
You can use Tools > Publish to get either an <iframe> that can be embedded in another site, or the HTML and JavaScript to put in your own page. But it there's no automatic way to create a mobile app.
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I had an idea to hide gifts for different occasions (Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary, etc) around the house, and create an app that will act as a "locator". Preferably, I would like to have AR directions similar to those shown in Google Maps' Live View Walking Directions. Are there any platforms that exist to help me map out my house and create these AR Markers showing which way to go?
My worst case scenario at the moment is to just place an AirTag with the gift and let them use my phone to find the item. This will require almost no prep time, but loses the "cool" factor. I don't mind spending a lot of time on this as it's something I would enjoy doing.
After some extended research, I was able to find that Google's ARCore Cloud Anchors are exactly what I am looking for. More information can be found here: https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/cloud-anchors
Cloud Anchors let you map a location, place anchors, and attach virtual content to these anchors. These are great for private locations and events where you can show up ahead of time, map the location, and place content.
I'm trying to figure out if Google Places (or Maps) API allows me to request the 'Quick Facts' text shown when you search for a city/town on Google Maps. For example, if you search for 'London on Google Maps on desktop, brings back this text in a panel on the left side of the page:
"London, England’s capital, set on the River Thames, is a 21st-century city with history stretching back to Roman times. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex, and the entire city."
I know I can get 'description text' back for actual places using Google Places API but I don't think this is the case for towns and cities themselves. Does anyone know how I can get this 'quick facts' text for cities/towns using an API?
You can use the SaveWidget control to create a custom UI for saving places. When you use the SaveWidget you can specify additional attribution data so that you user remembers where they saved the place from and can easily navigate back to your app.
In order to add a SaveWidget to your app, you will need to do the following:
Add a div to a page that contains a Google Map.
Indicate the place to be saved with a marker, so that your user knows which place they are saving.
Create a SaveWidgetOptions object that includes a place and attribution object literal.
Create a new SaveWidget object, passing the div and the options that you've added.
Follow this link to show the complete code sample: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/save-widget
For a new housing project, a complete area will be developed on a blank piece of land. We would like to create a nice interactive chart with all the different sub housing projects. Currently we have a static map available, but want to turn this into an interactive map.
Currently we have found zeemaps.com to add pointers to the map, highlight new building area's and add additional information. One thing is lagging, is the ability to create roads/parks in the map.
Are there any tools out there available where I can 'draw' the new to be developed area into a google-like map.
Another alternative is to create a set of custom map tiles that replace or overlay the standard map tiles for your development area, see
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/maptypes#CustomMapTypes
You might even be able to create custom streetview images to create a virtual drive though of the development and the inside of the buildings, see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/streetview#CustomStreetView
Is Google Map Maker https://www.google.co.uk/mapmaker enabled for your area?
This would allow you to add all the roads, buildings parks in your development.
Note: You would need to check the terms of use to ensure that adding planned but not yet built developments was permitted, but I do see that you can set the construction status of a road to Planned so I assume it is OK.
You can also do similar editing with Open Street map https://www.openstreetmap.org
I want to create an embedded Google Maps on my non profit website. I've asked around to a few "professional" developers, and they all want thousands of dollars... in case you missed it, this is a non profit.
What I want to do is embed a Google Map on my website that will:
Allow anonymous users to type in an intersection, (ie: Woodward and Fort), grab the map, pan and zoom.
Allow users to anonymously add markers to the map. These markers will be pre-set, one for "suspected drug activity," another for "illegal dumping," "dangerous structure," etc...
Allow users to anonymously comment on those markers and have that activity take place in an "Info Box" on that marker. The comments should be saved in the info box for other anonymous users to see. It'd be nice if there were some way I, as an admin, could have those comments appear in a custom admin window so they can be easily printed out and taken to the police.
Allow only the site administrator to delete markers.
The anonymous users should not be able to move or delete a marker once its placed. Whatever happens on the map should pretty much stay there for anyone to see until it gets deleted by an admin.
Long story short, I live in Detroit, MI and have my entire life. I've traveled the world, but home is home and I love it. I see young people like myself being passionate about the city but most of us don't know how to engage and even though we're outraged by whats going on in our neighborhoods, we're complicitly silent on the problems. I want to create this site so people can keep a public record of the problems in the neighborhoods so the police can do something about it. A second map would share positive news on the city to show that its not all doom and gloom and there are things that are beautiful, fun, safe, and worth-while here.
If you don't mind pitching in some time to help, I'd appreciate it very much. But if you've got an idea on how to code it, I can try to do it myself.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for your input.
Thanks everyone for your support. In response to Duncan here is my specific question:
How can I embed a map on my site but still have a place for visitors to type in an intersection and be taken there while still on my site?
Thanks!
Google provides a pretty basic tutorial for implementing google maps here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial
For a project I just completed, I needed to show the winning selection of a poll in each country. Ultimately we used Google Charts API, because the other Google World Map products did not allow the color of the water to be customized. In this project the water needs be black so it blends with the web page it's on. The only problem with the Charts API version is that it's max size is 440x220.
I've been searching the internet for a while and I've been unable to find a better, larger more customizable World Map product.
Is there a larger than 440x220 World Map product, for pay or open source, that allows me to set the color of the water so that it blends seamlessly with the web page it's on?
The OpenStreetMap project has both web and application map producers, and you have no restriction on the size of the display map nor on the styline. Check out their wiki to get you started.
If you like the offerings by Google in general, have you seen the option for a maps visualization using Fusion Tables? Also, there is a May blog posting describing using Fusion Tables with dynamic styling that could be relevant.
I wrote a tool to create SVG maps : Make a clickable map which also has a world map
that you can customize to your liking: Create a world map using Makeaclickablemap
Hope this will help you or any other folks who are after a customizable world map!