I recently saw some information on GME Portable. It sounds like this tool allows not just GME API access, but also regular Maps and Earth API access offline?
I've recently developed the first stage of a demo for an academic software project with the Google Maps API. It seems to be working perfectly, but I've recently been informed that it needs to be useable in an always-offline mode. Thus, my goal is now to convert this app into something that can be always-offline, but still has the elegance of google maps.
Is it possible, with GME Portable (which I cannot find a download for...) or the regular Google Maps API to develop an application that does not need to http-request Google for the API every time it loads up?
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Does Google Map API V3 include solution that allows to track moving assets without us having to develop additional mobile apps (apps to be installed on each asset to be tracked)?
My company is a Google Maps APIs Premium plan business user and we have several .Net C# web pages already using Google Map API. And we are looking for the possibility to add a moving-assets-tracking feature on our website now, but we prefer not to get into mobile app developments for this.
If that possible? I googled, but not seeing much info on this. Could you please provide some detailed examples?
Thanks!
Asset tracking is possible with Google Maps Platform, but I don't think this is possible without installing an application to the asset being tracked as there
could be no means to track it.
By V3, if you are referring to JavaScript API then it is not possible.
You may read about asset tracking in this documentation:
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/asset-tracking/
Contacting sales team for Google Maps might be able to provide you something. But this is still unsure. The contact sales form can be found in the link above.
I am developing a mobile app which will use google maps. Does Google maps for iOS/android maps have usage limits which my app can use? I assume there would be or else couldn't an app that gets popular then make millions of calls to google a day which would be costly I believe for google. I can't find any info on this. Reading other posts I can see a few google map api have a limit of 25000/a day but can't find anything for mobile?
As far as my understand, you have unlimited access to Google Maps using Android or iOS API. The API key is for tracking purpose only.
What data can be extracted from google maps? It seemed to me that I can just poll information about places and geography through their api. I'm looking to pull down a map of a city from google maps and then make my own map from it in order to throw that data into a game engine. A brute force method would be extracting the bitmap images and then processing that information, but is there some standard of geographical information I should explore? And if so, can I get that information from google maps?
If you want your own copy of a map you might be best off looking at Open Street Map, the Google TOS will likely dissallow the use that you are looking for, while OSM is open source and you can download the entire data set at will should that be your desire.
For mapping applications I would look into QGIS, it's again free and a powerful tool.
You can extract datasets and metadata from Google Maps Engine for use on other platforms. You can use the Google Maps Engine API to programmatically access and download data and metadata/configurations from your Google Maps Engine account. This approach is best when you need to download a larger number of data sources from your Maps Engine account or if you’ve updated vector tables using the Maps Engine API.
To download data with the Maps Engine API, your application must handle OAuth 2.0 for authentication as well as the calls to retrieve data via the GME API.
So far the easiest solution in the data extraction industry is to use a Google Maps Web Scraping Template.
Google Maps web scraping template
is an advanced feature of the industry-leading free data extractor Octoparse. They built dozens of templates covering all popular websites, which are ready to use preformatted crawlers. You can use it to extract the business name, reviews, ratings, address, websites, phone number, and open hours, etc.
If you think the template doesn’t meet your needs, you can build your own crawler to extract other information.
Other advanced solutions to extract google maps data include using open-source projects on Github, using python framework/library, use a web scraper chrome extension, etc.
You can check out this article 5 Free Google Maps Data Extractors
I've a small self-hosted website hosted on my home server via no-ip.com, wonder if it's legit/possible to use Google maps on it and what would be the viable options if not?
What do you mean with "to use Google maps on it"?
If you just want to allow your users to see a map and navigate on it, it is possible. Google has published a SDK (Google Maps API) that allows other people to interrogate Google servers, collect data (maps), show maps to users and perform a few operations related to positioning and navigation. There is a web (javascript) toolkit for this here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/
Other info here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/
If you want to host a clone of the Google Mpas service on your PC, then no, this is not possible (both for legal and technical reasons).
A well-known, largely appreciated alternative to Google Maps is openstreetmap:
http://openstreetmap.org/
Recently Google released a new version of their Google Maps which lets you save an offline version of a particular chunk of the map. At the same time I've been playing around with making an Android app which uses the Google Maps API, and I was just wondering... is it possible in some way to get that offline map and get my application to use it? So that my application doesn't need an internet connection either?
I'm aware that OpenStreetMap is an alternative but I don't think it'll work with the project I have in mind.
Cheers
that may be a violation of Google's Terms of Service.
Have a look at this: How to cache Google map tiles for offline usage?