I'm not too familiar with GMaps, so I don't know how to prevent that...
However, from what I understand, a prompt will show asking to wither save it or not, so an accidently saving will not be so easy... Still.. on purpose... it's another ball game.
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I'm not too familiar with GMaps, so I don't know how to prevent that...
However, from what I understand, a prompt will show asking to wither save it or not, so an accidently saving will not be so easy... Still.. on purpose... it's another ball game.
An idea came to mind that could make it a bit more usefull and safe to use...
That idea was to create both a win32, using B4Ppc, and an Android Map viewer... The user would set his position, and would be able to "see" the others on the map, and if aditional info was available, like e-mail or such, send a message... Chat integration would be nice too...
This could be a Collaborative Developed Aplication... How about Guys??
That idea was to create both a win32, using B4Ppc, and an Android Map viewer... The user would set his position, and would be able to "see" the others on the map, and if aditional info was available, like e-mail or such, send a message... Chat integration would be nice too...
This could be a Collaborative Developed Aplication... How about Guys??
We can get the map data in KML format by adding GET parameter output=kml to the original map URL:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?output=kml&msid=214724887690720235962.0004d7043550452e089c3&msa=0
Parsing the KML and displaying the placemarkers on a map in an android app is pretty straightforward.
Restricting access and authenticating users would be a bigger task i think.
Martin.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?output=kml&msid=214724887690720235962.0004d7043550452e089c3&msa=0
Parsing the KML and displaying the placemarkers on a map in an android app is pretty straightforward.
Restricting access and authenticating users would be a bigger task i think.
Martin.
I think that would be easilly achieved by creating a Dummy G account and have that being the creator of the map and solo user allowed to change the map... (already available in GMaps)
I think step 1 is authentication and user control. While we could use google accounts, I would not prefer it. Any ideas on this?
How about this for the basis of a map...?
Member marker icons are a random hue at the moment - extracting the URL for each icon and then downloading the icons is on the 'to do' list, along with downloading up to date KML.
I see there's no way to get whether the infowindow is visible, so no way to save and restore the infowindow state on orientation change - or have i missed something here?
The project is attached but will not work as it is...
I've updated GoogleMapsExtras with a new method AnimateToBounds but have not yet uploaded the update. I may update GoogleMapsExtras again if required to save and restore the infowindow state so for now if you want to compile the project simply comment out line 54:
The FitMapToMembers Sub isn't very useful to be honest as the bounds of all members covers the globe and trying to fit the map to the bounds doesn't work very well.
Martin.
- I've used XOM to parse a KML file that i downloaded from Google - no real time KML download so far it's a flat file.
- Then LabelExtras properly handles any HTML in the user name and description fields from the KML.
- Finally GoogleMaps and GoogleMapsExtras render the member locations on a map.
Member marker icons are a random hue at the moment - extracting the URL for each icon and then downloading the icons is on the 'to do' list, along with downloading up to date KML.
I see there's no way to get whether the infowindow is visible, so no way to save and restore the infowindow state on orientation change - or have i missed something here?
The project is attached but will not work as it is...
I've updated GoogleMapsExtras with a new method AnimateToBounds but have not yet uploaded the update. I may update GoogleMapsExtras again if required to save and restore the infowindow state so for now if you want to compile the project simply comment out line 54:
B4X:
GoogleMapsExtras1.AnimateToBounds(GoogleMap1, Bounds, 0)The FitMapToMembers Sub isn't very useful to be honest as the bounds of all members covers the globe and trying to fit the map to the bounds doesn't work very well.
Martin.
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A newer map was created at some point: http://www.communitywalk.com/B4X
Though it seems that this site is no longer maintained.
Though it seems that this site is no longer maintained.