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My site has a large number of local service providers and their location information.
I'm assuming this is the sort of thing Google would like to index in their Maps or Places product since I see their map widget come up in related search results.
Google Places allows you to do a bulk upload but it has a verification process designed for individual business owners where they call or mail you something.
I've looked a bit into KML or GeoRSS. Has anyone had success using these methods to get Google to index location data that appears in their maps search results?
Have you reviewed the Google webmaster tools documentation for sitemaps?
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=94555
Also:
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlSearch.html
These cover how to submit data for Maps, Search and Earth.
At first I thought KML was the way to go, but this appears to be what I was looking for:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/richsnippetslocal/
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I'd like to retrieve directions for wheelchair-bound users, allowing me to provide wheelchair accessible routes. My Google Maps app allows this, but there's nothing about it in the API documentation.
Does the Directions API support this? If not, how do Google Maps do it?
Currently, this feature is not available in Google Maps API. If you would like this feature to be added, you may file a Feature Request in our public issue tracker to include this feature in the Directions API.
Issue Tracker is a tool used internally at Google to track bugs and feature requests during product development.[5] It is available outside of Google for use by external public and partner users who need to collaborate with Google teams on specific projects. You can learn more here [1].
[1] https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/
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I want to use the SAS Google Map Generator but I am not sure if I can on proprietary data. I don't want any of the data to be placed anywhere but my own server, even when interacting with Google.
Ideally what I want is to download the map of my choice (state of Wyoming for example) and all of the locations of that area are in a zip file or shape file for me to be able to pin the dataset locations onto, in my own computer. I was reading this.
But it seems a bit confusing to me. Has anyone used it and know that I wouldn't be sending any of my information back to Google?
I've never done this before so I just want to be sure I won't get in trouble for any data leaks.
Thanks!
If you're using the Google Maps API, as it seems you are, then yes, you are sending some information to Google - namely, the center of the map that you're displaying, plus possibly other information depending on what exactly you are displaying.
If you want to do everything client-side, the easiest way is likely to use SAS's built-in map files. This won't display a Google Maps style map, and will give up quite a bit of detail, but it will allow you to display the state borders, counties, and major cities.
You also could use OpenStreetMaps or a similar product, which is locally downloadable more or less as you describe. However, you wouldn't be able to use the Google Maps API; you'd have to do the projecting in SAS still.
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My mobile App needs to give the user the possibility to select a city in a cities list.
Google geocode has proven very good. For example, I can use the french "Londres" for London or the Italian "Parigi" for Paris.
But the usage limits (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/?hl=fr#Limits) say that I cannot use it without a map. Using a map on this part of my app would be confusing and slow too. I use google maps in other parts of my app.
I know there is another Google API to get the list of locations and all one needs to display is a Google logo but I cannot remember which API it is.
Is there a way to bypass this restriction
You might want to have a look at the Places Autocomplete API. I believe you can use it without a map provided you include the Google logo (which is included by default).
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places#places_autocomplete
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I am currently invested in a project to implement marine charts and maps into our custom Google Maps application. However, I am quite unsure of how to actually go about doing this. I would like to use the NOAA ENC data from here:
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/ENCs/ENCs.shtml
What I would like to do is use this data to display the charts on Google Maps. Does anyone have any ideas/tips/insight on how to do this?
Apparently there is an open-source reader which plugs into common utility (ogr2ogr) which allows you to convert the data into shapefile format:
http://home.gdal.org/projects/s57/
Once you get the data into shapefile format, then turning it into tiles is a well-understood problem. Here is one blog posting of one way someone did it:
http://jongyulin.com/2009/05/getting-started-with-map-tiling-mapnik-and-shapefiles/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150523144053/http://jongyulin.com:80/2009/05/getting-started-with-map-tiling-mapnik-and-shapefiles/
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Hope someone can advise,
I would like to be able to use google map API to find all Zip codes/cities with x Miles of a point.
Has anyone done such a thing with google map or maybe some other type of service.
Would love to know if so how you have achieved it !
Thank you if you can advise.
There's nothing in the Google Maps API that can help with that, and I've never heard of any such service that could be mashed up with a Google Map.
What you could do is obtain a list of the locations of all the zip codes. Do a web search for [free zip code database] there are lots of them out there. Put it on your server then write your own server script to search it.