I'm searching for complete explanations about how to use geokit-rails3. I've found loads for rails2 but not for rails3. Does any of you have a simple and complete tutorial about how to display a google map on Rails3, from A to Z ?
Thanks a lot for your help !
Geokit (and geokit-rails3) can be thought of as geocoding utility libraries, useful for finding and storing the locations of model instances and for performing location-based searches, but they do not include mapping support.
For Google Maps mapping in rails 3 there are a few choices, but no clear winner. At the moment, most end up just using the Google Maps javascript API version 3 directly. I found Google's Maps API documentation very clear and easy to use.
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I have a LibGDX project which I can run on all platforms that are supported by LibGDX. Recently I started integrating the Google Nearby Messages API. I got it working on Android through platform-specific code, pretty much like the description on Google says it should be done. Now I want to integrate it in the iOS project, which uses RoboVM, but according to their documentation (https://developers.google.com/nearby/messages/ios/get-started) I should use CocoaPods, which doesn't seem so straightforward for integration, especially in a LibGDX project. I hope someone with some experience in doing this can help me out, or point me to a project in which that's already done. Thanks!
As far as I know, with RoboVM you use their available RoboPods supporting the most popular 3rd party intgrations, but not all.
Popular Google tools are listed there but I did not see Google Nearby Messages API, more info here:
https://github.com/MobiVM/robovm-robopods
I need to implement marker clustering and found a tutorial in the official Google Maps Documentation, but when following the link to the MarkerClusterer repo it says its no longer maintained and kept for historical purpose only.
Should I use something else, or is this safe to use?
This might sound very dumb question but I am just confused. I am quite new in Google Maps and I had gone through two different types of mapping object namely GMap2 and google.maps.Map. What is the difference and which is better?
Thanks in advance!
GMap2 is from previous version of google maps framework (version 2.x). Google has completely rewritten its maps javascript library, making it more lightweight and compatible with mobile devices. It's version 3.
If you are a beginner, start with version 3 (google.maps.Map)
i'm need to develop and web application that uses maps, and i have two option in my to reach the goal. Google maps or bing maps, my concern it's witch it's better about
Documentation it's very important
Implementation with a Web application develop in .net
Fast learning curve
i need recommendations because for my point of view both are a completed tools for solve my problem. Thanks
I strongly recommend Google Maps.
Fabulous documentation
Code Playground
Very fast learning curve
With the new v3 api you don't need a api key
Cheers
take a look at our series of articles comparing aspects of both, and Ill admit up front I like bing more but have tried to be as impartial as possible:
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/02/ajax-mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-update-pushpin-display-performance/
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/12/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-update-api-download-sizes/
and the original posts:
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/12/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-part-1-introduction/
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/12/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-part-2-licensing/
http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/mapping-apis-google-maps-vs-bing-maps-part-4-developer-support-community/
I'm looking to build a small GIS in my spare time and have been digging into Geodjango.
I've been trying to find examples of open source Geodjango projects to look through, but I have had little luck, so here I am. I've been through most of the tutorials I could find, but they all seem to stop at the same point and I'm curious to look into some more complicated real-world code.
Anyone know if/where I can find some? Anything will suffice, but stuff using the Google Earth API as opposed to Open Layers would be ideal.
everyblock.com recently released their source code for their GeoDjango-based site. I've been digging through it - it's an interesting case study. It includes the public-facing site, a JSON API and some back-end data aggregation and map-generating code. Links and more info can be found at: http://www.everyblock.com/code/
I would recommend reading about what a GIS mapping stack is all about first. Once you understand where GeoDjango fits within this stack, there is a geodjango-basic-apps Google repository that gives some GeoDjango examples. The examples that you find online will swap certain portions of the stack (e.g. Open Layers for Google Maps API or MapServer for GeoServer) but the the design patterns and ideas are very similar if not the same in numerous cases.
MarineMap is a web-based tool for open and participatory spatial planning in the marine environment. For more information about MarineMap, visit http://marinemap.org
Code: https://code.google.com/p/marinemap/
Demo: http://southcoast.marinemap.org/marinemap/