Can anyone give me some basic directions to keep me going?
My general requirements for this application
country street map (ok)
Six different categories of PINS for volunteers to use eg Lost, Found, Alert etc (no idea how to provide that
Pin category filter to show on the map
permanent pins and non permanent
it will also be linked to website
Are there any tutorials or advice you can provide to help get me going on this project?
I would check out appcelerator.com it's mobile development product titanium I think has everything your looking for. Maps are quite easy to do in it and the pins your talking about are called annotations in the API you are able to specify images for them, this could be how you categorise them by showing a diff color or image all together, then by using an SQLite db in ur app you can make a list of them and pull out which ever ones you need.
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I am looking to create a WebAR app which recognizes custom image markers and show content augmented on top of them, have looked in to "blippar" and "zappar" both of which are a no go because of pricing.
8th Wall and amazon sumerian combo seems the best solution forward, but since 8th wall has multiple solutions for platforms. none of the documentation is satisfying enough to clarify if what i want to achieve is possible using it for the web.
Finally, After actually developing the application using 8th Wall and sumerian, Here is my answer to the feasibility of this option-
Yes, 8thWall provides proper marker based WebAR solution for amazon sumerian, They have a very active slack channel which you should join, It contains code snippets to primary issues faced by users in the chat history.
i would implement a Map on my Homepage.
It should display a route from a fix start point to a variable end point.
We have a database (mysql) which contain adresses (Street and number).
And thats the only way to determine the two points
I have completely no idea how to do that.
is OSM (OpenStreetMap) a good way to do that? But how can i get coordinates from a adress ...
Yes, OpenStreetMap is one possible way of solving your task.
To embed a map based on OSM you should either stick to Leaflet or OpenLayers. Both offer slightly different features but are easy to use. And both can easily display a GPX file (your route) as an overlay on top of the map.
For calculating this route you can choose from one of the many online routers, offline routers or just stick to a library.
Similarly OSM offers a way to convert an address to coordinates. This is called geocoding and can be done using Nominatim.
Remember to check the usage policies if you decide to use any of the web services (routing, geocoding, tiles). For most of these services there are alternative instances available which are run by different companies and have less-strict usage policies. And of course you can also run your local instances of most of these services if you like.
I want to make a very clean map that only shows relevant information - e.g., only the streets that matter. I was going to just draw a map while looking at Google's, but that turned out to be very slow. Is there any way to make this easier, perhaps with some combination of mapping software and Google's API?
(If I should of put this on another SE site, please tell me)
Building upon Suvi's nice answer.
There is a very useful open-source project that collects street data for the entire globe. It's called OpenStreetMap. On their website you can extract the specific street data you need. It only takes a few clicks and bam! you got the map you need. Their data can also be accessed (perphaps easier for some) from here and here. Those links can provide you with the shapefile(map) that you need. Your newly aquired map can then be loaded in the free QGIS software that was mentioned. There you can easily select the streets you are interested in.
When you mean you want to only show "streets that matter", you are out of luck with using Google Maps. Because you have no control over the ROADMAP data that google provides. Now what you can do, is use another mapping software such as ArcGIS or Quantum GIS (which is free). Both these softwares allow you to load road data shapefiles, and you can query (select) which roads you want to display and customize the look of it to your liking.
If you want a quick approach (without having to download softwares), I believe ArcGIS has an online portal which allows you to display information you want on top of their base maps. You will still need the shapefile for your streets though. Check this link out, make yourself an account and experiment around with it http://www.arcgis.com/home/. If you click on the Map tab, it takes you to a screen which should allow you to upload shapefiles.
You said you were ' going to just draw a map'. If all you need is a very clean map, you can consider using iMap Builder which is a mapping software supports both map shape files, and custom Google maps. I have used to create some simple map projects before and worked great for me. You can use their pre-made map templates which shows just the map outlines without any details, you can then add routes / points / mouse-over speech bubbles etc as you need.
Does anyone know if it is possible to integrate Google maps and use also their data on topics.
Im using cakephp Framework.
I want to integrate a map of munich with fashion stores shown into my website.
But i want to show the results that come on google maps for fashion shops munich.
In the tutorials i see only ways to create your own markers.....
and second question is , i also would like to display the details , like opening hours and stuff.... is this data also available for automatic usage?
Yes, you can. You can style the POI on the map.
Also, you can only show the data google has available. They may not have every place, and a LOT of their places do not have hours. If you want a lot of data, I would suggest using your own markers.
I want to create an application where users can mark on map location of polluting factories. Google map provides a MAP editor feature. We would like to have our own website like www.toxic-map.org where people could mark these locations. What would be the best approach for this?
Additionally we should be able to backup this database which could be cross checked or used for other purposes.
This will enable us to have little accurate census of such entities and thereby helping us in the fight against these environment harming, illegal factories. Most of our work is focused on developing countries of Asia.
Edited: Google maps is one of the options. I am open to other possible solutions as well. I am looking at something we could do quick prototyping in.
Thank you in advance!!
On the client side, I recommend you to have a look at OpenLayers, a free and open source web mapping framework released under a BSD-style License. It is completely written in Javascript and offers a lot of functionality, including the features that your application may need (Add markers to the map, drag them to adjust the locations, ...).
It also supports dozens of different geographic data formats and services such as WMS, KML or Google Maps.
If you are worried about licensing issues regarding the use of Google Maps, you can use other global data sources like OpenStreetMap or a public WMS if they provide enough coverage of your area of interest.
On the server side, I agree with the answer provided by Daniel Vassallo. I will just add a little detail and recommend you to serve the markers in a standard format natively supported by OpenLayers like KML, GeoJSON or GeoRSS. It will make really easy to draw the markers on the map.
Looks like a really interesting project, I hope you are lucky starting it up.
I seem to remember that there are restrictions to what you can do with the coordinates if you enter them through Google's interface, but if that doesn't bother you then sure, Google might be the way to go. (It may just pertain to geometrical figures entered into Google Earth or something like that.)
Google seems to be in line with your ideology anyway, as they're doing a lot of green power development. Might even be a selling point.
But if you can input the data separately and have Google Maps just display it for you then I wouldn't think they could hold claim to the data.
I think your best bet is to use the Google Maps API instead of the map editor in My Maps.
With some basic JavaScript, you will be able to allow users to drop markers on the polluted locations they would want to tag.
You will need a database on the server-side, and a thin application layer that:
Accepts and validates new markers added by users.
Serves the markers from the database to the browser.
You may want to use AJAX to interact between the browser and the application layer.
I think this type of project would be an excellent candidate to be hosted on the Google App Engine. You will be able to leverage on the simplicity of the webapp framework, and the Google Datastore appears to fit well.
As a side-note, you might be interested in checking out the Heat Map API for Google Maps. I think heat maps would look good in a project like this.
The approach is this:
1. User can drag the marker to the location of toxic factory.
2. A simple form opens to enter details of the toxic factory.
3. The latitude, logitude and other datails are then saved in database.
Please refer www.loppee.com They have a similar solution where user can mark the location of people or places of interest. Loppee uses LeafletJS javascript framework. It is a simple framework. You would be able to develop quick prototype. LeafletJS.com has simple and easy to use code samples.
Additionally, you can enable Geolocation and IP triangulation. Refer: Longitude and latitude value from IP address