I have been looking through some libraries and the API itself for a solution like the one apartmentlist.com uses to show parts of cities. For example when you hover over Palo Alto, Menlo Park or Redwood City, you get a nice overlay that cover that parts.
I would like to do the same thing, but have no clue how it is done.
Have found out a bit about polygons but I don't really think that is what I am looking for?
This is what I want to achieve:
Thanks in advance.
It was polygons I wanted to use. They are easy to create by using the Google Maps Drawing Library.
Google Maps Drawing Library
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I am trying to download lot of google earth areal and satellite view screenshots for each coordinates i got(more that 500). I am not sure how can I automate this. After some research i found some ways which include bing maps, Google api or javascript, But no one mentioned how to go ahead with that. Can someone suggest me a way to do this?
Thank you
Capturing and storing the imagery from Bing and Google Maps is against their respective terms of use and should not be done. This is likely why you are finding little information on how to do this.
Is there the easy way to have interactive map of Canada (based on provinces first), to basically be able to click on province, then to zoom in selected province, and show markers on that region based on latitude and longitude?
Initially I though I can use google maps API for that, but it would be too much extra codding to draw province boundaries and to add all the events, etc. so I'm looking for some alternative which might save me some time so I don't have to worry about UI part that much. Any suggestion?
I could recommend leaflet: Leaflet
Here is an example of an interactive map: Interactive Map Example
I sometimes get boundary datas from (but there are for sure a dozent others) : Boundary Provider
You can get a json from the boundary provider an use leaflet javascript library to fullfill your project. Leaflet is really easy to get into and many code-snippets can be found on the internet to have a quick nice looking output.
Check out Leaflet.
Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 38 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers ever need.
I have personally used Leaflet in many R projects and it's the best JavaScript library for interactive maps manipulation out there.
Is it possible to draw routes with google maps or any other map api? Like when you're looking for direction from point a to point b on google map with Get Directions button.
I'd like to draw a line that follows certain road but without the directions I don't need those. And if I can draw multiple lines between multiple points on the map that would be awesome.
Has anyone had experience with this before?
You can either use the Directions API or, if you really prefer to ignore the directions Google generates, you can use the maps API drawing functions to draw your own lines on the map.
You can also employ "drawing library"
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/drawing
But,this experimental tool cant specify colors nor line-thick via GUI.
My enhanced example is at:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/tcltk-d/ge-navi.html
(select "Drawing" view to draw)
I am attempting to make a simple PhoneGap app that will allow a user to input lat/long points and bearings and calculate their estimated intersection, along with a measure of error. I would like to display the lines, intersection, and an error elipsoid on a map or at least a grid of latitude and longitude lines, so the user can visualize the accuracy of the point. The tricky part is that this will be used for wildlife tracking in areas where the user may not have cell service. Is there some sort of Javascript plugin that will make a lat/long grid available for me to draw georeferenced lines and shapes on? I would love to use something like the Google Maps API, but that clearly won't work for offline use. I've Googled quite a bit, but I'm not sure where to start with this or if it's even feasible at all.
This program is similar to what I'm trying to achieve: http://www.locateiii.com/
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
I'd use d3.js and http://code.google.com/p/gmapcatcher/ something like this where you can keep the google maps offline. If that's not feasible you can always us D3 with a svg of the map.
I ended up using OpenLayers with OpenStreetMap tiles prepared by Maperitive. Simple and works well with PhoneGap.
I'm trying to achieve an effect similar to this:
Notice how France is brighter than the other countries. It has the 'focus'. I've been exploring the API and it looks like I'm supposed use kmlLayers to achieve this effect. Is this correct? If so, how do I leverage or even find kml to do this? How else could I do this?
Thanks
I found this can be done with polygons and 'holes'. Google has this pentagon example
The only down side is the polygon needs to be drawn by hand (maybe there's a database of country outlines?) I used this tool to assist with the manual drawing for now.
The information at these links will help you, I think:
KML of the World Countries as created by Valery Hronusov
KML of the World Capitals as created by Filipumme
this demo shows you how: https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/layer-kml
aight, got kml for france; working demo: http://dev.bowdenweb.com/maps/gmaps/layer-kml-02.html