Is it possible to make a Custom shape (Using Mouse) on the Google Map using Gmap library in C# and then save it into the database and on the client request draw the stored shape on Google Map again? Is there any possibility for doing such operation in any other library or in Gmap (I am not expecting the code. Just an overview of doing it.)?
Oh Boy....this is absolutely doable! And I do it on day to day basis! Let me share how I achieve it. Another thing to keep in mind that this works for Google Maps and Bing Maps.
First, you have to represent Maps as not just coordinates but as collection of small squares. Now what do I mean by that?!
Have a look at this following picture. It's image of Czech Republic on google maps.
Now Czech Republic a.k.a Czechia, on google maps can be seen as collection of smaller square images or grids. You need to understand this concept very well in order to make this idea work. Now take a look at the following image where it shows how the image of Czechia on Google Maps can be visualised as collection of small square boxes or grid. These small square boxes hold images of parts of Czechia.
If you want to Zoom into a co-ordinate Xm,Ym (Easting:Xm, Northing:Ym), which is a place in Czechia and the name of that place is "Hermanuv Mestec" (as shown in the above picture) then you need to choose the bounding small box with co-ordinates (X1,Y1),(X1,Y2),(X2,Y1)&(X2,Y2), and fetch the underlying images in that box. This feature to fetch underlying images within that bounding box is actually Zooming In. So when you Zoom In or in other words fetch the underlying images within that bounding box, you get something as the following image:
Now, I hope you got the underlying concept of how Zoom In or Zoom Out (reverse process) and mapping co-ordinate system works if you want to achieve what you want to achieve because this concept is very important to grasp before you proceed.
You need to write a program which can do this transformation. And as of your question how to achieve this as follows:
Step 1: Use a Panel (Control) on Windows Form or WPF or asp.net application, which you are building.
Step 2: Use GMap Library in C# to fetch the image within a bounding box as mentioned above and populate/draw that image on the Panel.
Step 3: Have a function that tracks mouse events on the panel. This function/method will track the X,Y position of mouse move event on the panel and use Panel Drawing tools to draw objects on the panel based on this.
Step 4: Write another program to transform these mouse X,Y positions on the panel to co-ordidnates on the map. This piece/part of the program is important because this is what enables you to translate your representation of small square image breakdowns of maps into panel drawable objects, so that you can draw them again and again in future if saved properly in the database.
Step 5: When you draw an abject on the panel you track the X,Y mouse bounds on the panel and transform those points into co-rodinates using your custom program and then you save the co-ordinates in the database table.
Thats it! And in case you need to draw the same object saved in the database, you first need to fetch/draw the google maps image on the panel again, then need to fetch that shape of the object from the database by fetching the co-ordinates of that object saved in the database table, use your translation program to convert those co-ordinates into panel drawable points and draw the object back on the same panel.
Now, you can write this translation program (Easting Northing co-ordinates to Drawing Panel co-ordinates) yourself, which might take good few months or at least some time. Or you can buy customised program specialised to achieve this exact same function for a good amount of price.
Hope this helps.
You can also achieve this with Google Maps drawing object with JavaScript as mentioned in another answer but the issue is with the translation and saving the coordinates in the database. It's much faster and responsive in this aforementioned method. Anyway, this is how I do this, so kind of personal opinion.
Technologies required for the aforementioned technique is as follows:
Google Map Library/Bing Map Library (whichever you choose)
C# with .Net Framework 3.5 or above (.net framework lesser than this is also fine but may require bit more lines of code to achieve some functionality if you want to achieve complexity in this)
SQL Server Management Studio or anything equivalent depending on
the type of database and query you are planning to use.
I think you want to make a map overlay, and you can use Goggle Drawing Tools in conjunction with your map. See: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/drawing-tools
This will create the overlay. Presumable you could write javascript code that would save the coordinates and attributes of the overlay to a hidden field once you hit a "Save button" . Then after form submission you could save this info to a database using standard techniques, and then when rendering the map the next time, insert the overlay info into the javascript output by your page,
I am not going to spend the time making this for you, but this is the approach I would take.
steps:
1) Get the geometry/shape out from google api.
2) Send/post to server using some popular exchange format, GeoJSON or WKT
3) Prepare a server's service/asp/web service to accept the request and translate/validate those geometries into Oracle SDO_Geometry user define type/struct.
4) Use some C# oracle library,
a) create Connection,
b) create command with parameter,
c) Initial an OracleObject, assign all the required properties like SDO_GTYPE, SDO_SRID.
d) Assign the OracleObject to the the named parameter in the command.
e) Execute the command and commit.
Hope this help.
I'm developing an application that loads lots of markers in OpenLayers 3.
However, I would like to dynamically display and load markers while user is panning at a certain zoom level.
Could someone provide me an example, or directions to do that?
For instance, I would like to first create an example that drops a marker where user has clicked on the map.
So, with this information, I will be able to handle the rest and post my solution here.
I've managed to create a way for setting this up:
http://weebah.com/weebah_examples/click_to_create.html
I've been experimenting with different dashboards. JDASH for example. I need to come up with something that shows different locations in Canada and US and show how many wells are at these locations and on these dates.
Any ideas on how the easiest way would be to go about achieving this?
I have the database setup with all the user input information.. locations, gps cords etc... just need to know how to put that on a map
What you want to do can be achieved with DBxtra, you need to look into the Pivot grid element and use the map in there, the map accepts anything from GPS coordinates to city/country names, you just need to create a query from your database.
If you feel like using a full reporting/dashboarding solution is an overkill, you may be able to do the same with Bing or Google maps using their Javascript APIs.
I am working on openlayers application. One of the task that I am going to do is when user clicks on the map or any country, then It should select that map and outline that country by drawing a border in vector form. Is this possible? If yes then please give me some code links for examples.
hi yes this is quite easily done. There are many ways to do so,
You will need to have a web service which will return the geojson (vector) boundary based on lat long passed.
on clinet side you will need to add a vector layer on top of your base map.
Assign a click handler on map (use a tool) and then on the click of the tool, call the web service passing the latlon , eventually when you get back the response from your web service inject the geojson to the vector layer.
Also look here https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/35395/how-to-highlight-a-selected-country
I was curious to know rather google gives the ability to append data to a particular location on their map as long as it resides in your app. for example...
If I wanted to create a rating app that rates stores or restaurants. and customers wanted to look up stores in their location. They will be able to see my data within my app showing the ratings for that particular businesss.
Thanks...
Most certainly. You would need an independent platform that keeps track of your data i.e. ratings, comments, etc. In addition, you would have to manage the entire map yourself i.e. plotting the markers based on user searches and populating the info boxes when they click on a marker (if you need to). Most likely you would have a database that tracks latitude/longitudes of the restaurants. You could even use google itself to retrieve the restaurant info and overlay your own ratings on top of the map when you plot the points.
For instance here is a custom info box that you may use to display ratings etc.
One interesting feature I would add to the app is using HTML5's geolocation to automatically detect the user's latitude/longitude.