I have a set of addresses, lets say restaurants, which I would like to plot on Google Maps and then make it possible for the user to rate them. I would also like to provide a search feature where the user can filter the restaurants by e.g. rating, food choice etc.
I have created the database architecture to store the restaurants and ratings, but how should I go around creating the overlay?
Are there already a feature where I can pinpoint an address and then supply my own html-code/iframe or alike, or do I need to create the overlay from the bottom myself?
I have looked at the overlay API, but I can't seem to figure out what is the best way to go around doing it?
I found out that the InfoBox would work.
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Im currently thinking of making floor plan direction for my school. It has 2 floors and various portables (Classroom outside).
The floor plan im trying to utilize.
I tried physically annotating each individual classrooms to classrooms. But this is very tedious. Using google maps? or html? can I make a simple floor plan page that links all the classrooms just like google maps?
Imagine, a user wants to get from room 123 to room 153. The user wants to use the application to show the route on the floorplan of how to get from that particular room to the other.
The floor plan direction site is going to give the user option of from then to and it will show the direction.
For a 100 room school, there could be possibly 1000 ways to get from there to there.
Is there any way of doing this? Given the fact that the application would need to pretty much know exactly where all the possible routes are, this is something pretty much exactly like Google maps.
It would be great if we could use Google Map's api to create directions around a custom floor-plan, but I'm pretty sure this is not possible!
Anyone know any easier way of achieving this possibility?
Any advise on what direction to take would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
JeremyZh
Looked at https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/indoormaps/? There is also an app to map out the building with your phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.insight.surveyor&hl=de
I made a google styled map and now I want to add more features to it. The feature I'm trying to add is a way to style specific countries. I want to let my program select a country and then have that country appear differently on the map and stand out.
This is challenging because there are polygon ways to do this, but that would mean it is hardcoded and the country can't change. I want to be able to use this feature on different countries.
Thanks
I don't know of a way to do this with styles; I think you'd need to generate map tiles with countries coloured and overlay those map tiles on top of what you have already.
I want to use Google Maps or another Map like Openstreetmap to make an interactive site where people can see the stats of crime in their own area... I want to put in these stats by myself via the backend. The front-end must be something like this:
http://www.police.act.gov.au/crime-and-safety/crime-statistics.aspx
Where do I start with this? Is this a polygon? I have read the Google Maps API but I could not find a clue to make something like this. How did they put the stats in it? How can I color the area's and divide them? What did they use? Any direction would be very welcome.
PS: I want to have a detailed map. So no countries or cities, but the area's in a certain city have to be highlighted.
What I can suggest is that first study the developer documentation thoroughly for Google API v3.Basics will help a lot.
For pointers to your needs, you can get help in defining polygons and coloring them at this link https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays#Polygons and also check out the demo examples in the code.
For a 3 point polygon, here is an example https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/polygon-simple
You can define your polygons by adding points around your area. There are many tools available to find your pointer locations like http://martinove.dk/maptools/polytool/
In order to potray data, you can use markerclusterer. These examples can help:
http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclusterer/examples/
I'm trying to show some data about Australian suburbs. 'Suburb' is the term that Australians use to describe an area, if you are from the rest of the world think post code or something similar.
I'd like to be able to get access to the area boundaries that are already in the map. These are examples of the kind of boundary that I'm talking about:
Marrickville, Sydney (2204): http://goo.gl/maps/QYRhx
Clapton, London (E5): http://goo.gl/maps/3an2Y
I want to be able to draw the boundary on the map, draw multiple boundaries on a map (e.g. show which areas make up the 'inner west'), shade the areas to indicate their vaue of something or other. Generally do stuff with them.
This question asks about how to get boundaries that are drawn manually, but I want to access the ones that already exist.
This question asks a similar question, but it isn't answered.
This question is similar, but the responses suggest using shape files, not getting them directly from Google.
I've also tried the maps styling wizard, and whilst the administrative, neighborhood boundary is what I need to show, it doesn't seem to be able to affect the map.
I've looked in the api docs to no avail. Does anyone know if this is possible?
No, it isn't possible.
The area boundaries feature is not (yet?) implemented in the API.
If you explicitly need data from Google then I can't help you.
But if you just need data on Australian suburbs and don't care where you get it from (and if you happen to be interested in SA or NSW) then you can get GeoJSON or KML for SA from data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/suburb-boundaries and for NSW from data.gov.au/dataset/nsw-suburb-locality-boundaries-psma-administrative-boundaries.
You might find others at data.gov.au/dataset too, I haven't searched that much.
I want to create an online map for a hiking trail, and I have been using my smartphone to collect coordinates from it.
I have many questions regarding what's good practice when it comes to making such tracks, but for starters: it would look much neater if I could edit the readings so that they are right on top any roads in Google Maps. How can I achieve this?
EDIT: I want to find the coordinates that will make a track along a road look exactly as if I'm using snapping/directions even when I'm not.
I've tried tools such as QLandkarte GT and Viking, and with the latter I was able to manually remove excess coordinates and move the remaining ones so that they're exactly on top of roads (inside Viking, using OpenStreetMap). However when I load the edited .kml-file in Google Maps, the roads seem to be in slightly different places and the result is hardly better than before editing.
I tried using the hack that exports GMaps directions as .gpx, thinking I could insert Google's own coordinates along the roads. But the exported file only had coordinates at the turning points with straight lines between these.
QLandkarte GT supposedly has a snap-to-road feature (see answer in link), but I haven't found it and I also don't know how to obtain a vector map of the area.
Then there's Google Earth which people seem to use for this, but again I can't find any track editing features (in the free version).
In short:
How do I edit my existing tracks so that they match roads in GMaps...
OR
How can I obtain new tracks representing roads in GMaps...
...so that the resulting track is as smooth as Google's own directions or other professional GPS-data, when displayed in GMaps?
It seems like it's possible to get these coordinates from Google Maps after all, exporting the directions polyline. I'm not sure how, it seems to involve adding the parameter output=dragdir to the link.
Anyway there's a tool called GPS Visualizer that can create a .kml-file with the wanted coordinates.
Edit: Will accept my own answer as long as it's the only one, but I would still like to know more.