I am trying to leverage Google Maps Engine as a data store for an iOS app that uses the Google Maps SDK. Has anyone ever done that before? I'm having trouble finding examples or reference material on the internet. I can get data layers to show up in a web page using HTML and JavaScript, and I can see data layers in the native Google Earth App, but I want to show this data in my own custom map app.
Here is a link to Google Maps Engine for reference: http://www.google.com/enterprise/mapsearth/products/mapsengine.html
I believe you will need to get in touch with Google to receive a Maps API. I don't think they just let anyone on the street have it.
http://support.google.com/enterprisehelp/bin/request.py?contact_type=maps_engine&hl=en
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I'm having trouble figuring out how do I open a tab of google maps or google maps app on my app within the unity, and can't afford to buy the Asset for facilitating, what do I do? is there any other site or application that I can use and be easier?
You would have to use AndroidJavaClass and AndroidJavaObject API to construct common map intents: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Maps
There are plenty examples out there how to use AndroidJavaClass and AndroidJavaObject e.g. how to create a share intent. These are very similar for maps.
I want to use the Tun by Turn voice navigation feature that on google maps app in my android app, I've searched a lot but couldn't find answer, I've used google maps direction API for creating the path from the current location to the user's destination, it's part of the idea of the application to help the user navigate,
What API should I use ? or is it even possible to do it?
Google Maps API v3 does not provide the voice feature at all. And Google Maps API v3 and Google Maps applications are completely different ones. So if you want to implement the voice navigation, you need to prepare it.
Best to read the terms of service. 10.4 (c) ⅲ might be relevant:
ⅲ. No navigation. You will not use the Service or Content for or in connection with (a) real-time navigation or route guidance; or (b) automatic or autonomous vehicle control.
Fortunately, org.apache.cordova.plugin.tts plugin provides that function for Android.
document.addEventListener("deviceready", function() {
tts.speak("Hello");
});
Please refer to the link:
https://github.com/domaemon/org.apache.cordova.plugin.tts
Hope it helps.
I wanted to create a new map to store all my different routes I take daily:
* From Home to work
* Work to school
* school to park
... and so on.
But suddenly I had two open links:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/ "My Maps"
https://mapsengine.google.com/admin "Google Maps Engine"
First I thought they were related but I never arrived to modify a map created with My Maps in the Google Maps Engine and vive versa.
Somebody knows the difference of these two apps?
NOTE: All I needed was in "My Maps" app, but I certainly curious why they are kept separated from Google Maps Engine
Google Maps Engine allows you to add data layers on the maps. Basically you can add customized visualization on the map and furthermore if you are developing an app, you can embed your map saved in gallery in the app as an API. However, Google will stop supporting Maps Engine on January 29, 2016 and has stopped accepting new projects.
My Maps has a lot of similar functionality. You can add data layers here in CSV, XLSV or KML. You can also embed the map in a website and export KML of your custom map to embed as a KML layer.
Hope this is clear enough.
I'm new to both iOS programming & the Google Maps iOS SDK, so apologies if this is a basic question.
I want to include a Google map, in an app and give users the ability to search for various places (restaurants, bars, gyms, etc) within a certain radius of a marker.
I know this is possible using the javascript api, but can it be done using the maps iOS SDK? I have read all of the information here and have searched Stack Overflow & Google but I can't really find anything that gives me any pointers.
Within the documentation, Google say that using a URL Scheme you can launch a native iOS app and pass in parameters for searches, directions etc. Is this what I need to be using, or is that more tailored to a webapp?
Any help, advice, or pointers to tutorials (other than the ones provided by Google) would be massively appreciated.
Cheers
The Google Maps URL Scheme can currently only be used to open the Google Maps app to search for a location or for directions. It can't search for places. Also, if your own app did this, then it would shut down your app and switch to the maps app, which may not be what you want. It will also only work if the user has installed the Google Maps app.
You would probably want to use the Google Places API to make http requests from your native app. You can request a response in either JSON or XML format. Then you'll need to parse the response, and use it to add markers to a GMSMapView using the Google Maps SDK for iOS.
This blog post describes this library which the blog post's author wrote to wrap the Google Places API. You wouldn't need most of this code, but it might give you an idea of where to start. This class is the main one which handles the requests to the places API.
Note that this library uses a third-party JSON parser - SBJsonParser. As of version 5.0 iOS includes a native JSON parser, NSJSONSerialization. So if your app's minimum supported iOS version is 5.0 or higher, you don't need to use a third-party library.
We are trying to make a GUI application in C using GTK that would use google maps api to download a map and find the shortest path between the source and the destination. We have implemented a mini web browser in our application using web toolkit. What is troubling me determining how would our application interact with the google maps api and how to go about running our algorithms(say Djikstra's) on the map the we downloaded.
Any help is appriciated.
You cannot do that with Google Maps as they do not offer a vector api to download.
However, you should look at OSM which provides that. libchamplain should be able to do that for you.