maps

Custom maps in Android, loading via tiles (alternative for RouteMe for iPhone SDK)

Hi, I am working on a prototype port of one of our iPhone apps to Android. The iPhone app uses the RouteMe API to load our own custom maps into the application. (also tiled, just like Google Maps itself, so only loading what you see at that moment - this is very important in this case) I have been searching for a similar product for A...

Xcode google map navigation

I currently have an application which will drop pins onto various points of interest on a map, all done programmatically on the iPhone. What I am aiming to get done now is to allow a user to navigate to that location and get turn by turn directions by calling up the built in navigation tools on the iPhone. Is there anyway that I can do...

Creating MapView with ContextMenu without Overlays

I have a mapview and i wish to display a ContextMenu when longclick but so far the closest solution i've found is here on anddev , the main reason i do not like that method is because any click activate the ContextMenu instead of a long click. Question: Is there a way to display the ContextMenu of a Map without using Overlays? Why? ...

how to implement MKMapView Search;

Is there an example code? ...

Cartography and road maps in java

Hi all i'm developing an application must show a list of customers, resellers and other types of data an ao geographic map (from satellites) or on a road map for an university's exam. With this application i've to calulate the isodromi distance and the street route, where possible, from a source and a destination. I looked at Google Map...

google maps API V3 -> how to move map automatically when dragging a marker

When you have a draggable marker in the gmaps API V2 and drag the marker over the bounds of the map, the map moves automatically. Thats not the case in gmaps API V3. When you move a marker over the bounds, the marker disappears behind the map. How to solve this? I could not find any options at the docs. Thanks in advance. ...

How to link to database with coordinates to a Google Map

I have a huge database with geo-coordinates like -73.9637,40.7683 + a Google Map which shows some part of our world. Now, how to select all coordinates from my database which fit into the part of the map i can see? (Do i get a range from google? how to work with this range?) ...

KML file polygon data to db/php?

Hi all, I'm using gmaps v3 and I am using a kml file to display polygon shapes. What I want to do, is that if I have a LNG/LAT coordinate, how to find whether it falls on the boundary or inside the shape? I understand you can do this with V2 maps but not V3. So then my questions are: Can I import the coordinates into my db in a usefu...

Plotting locations on a map at city-scale

Hi, I want to plot a location on a map using the lat/lon pair reported by recent browsers. I've got that working with an image of the earth (like Google Maps zoomed out full) but what I'd really like to do is plot the lat/lon pairs at a more zoomed in level, like a ten mile radius from your current location, for example. At the moment ...