When you type, e.g., "UC Berkeley" into Google map, it shows this:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Berkeley
Where the campus is shown in a different and yellowish color.
Apparently Google distinguishes campus from non-campus.
I wonder is there any way I can get the geofence using Map API?
Googling this question returns overwhelming results on how to
create geofence, not on how to get geofence. thx.
I'm working with Google Maps API and unfortunately I'm almost sure that it's not possible. I think Google define the marker color contrasting it with their database.
Then, the best option is managing it yourself, sorry.
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I want to implement a map in flutter (can't use google maps) how can I do it? it's just a normal map with the ability to show current location constantly.
You can take a look on this package - https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_map
As a map tiles, you can use one of these https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers (but read open street maps terms of use https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
If you want to display current location, you can use this package https://pub.dev/packages/location and you can simply add new marker on the map.
Hope this help!
A tile sent from Nokia Here-Map tiles API, contains at least two POIs that do not exists in real life and also not on other Map services like Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. How can i get accurate/fresh POIs with the Map Tiles Api?
I'm using the service with LeafletJs, and i use a hybrid.day base map and a base one, with the pois parameter set to true and map version set to "newest". The tiles i'm getting effectively contains POIs but it doesn't seem accurate. I wrote to the sales support at Nokia Here, i'm not sure they can help me, but the website also indicate to use stackoverflow for technical questions. Mine doesn't seem like a sales related question or a technical one but i see no other alternative contact.
This is a link to get a tile with incorrect POIs:
https://4.base.maps.cit.api.here.com/maptile/2.1/maptile/bd9e007617/normal.day/17/59178/60113/256/png8?app_id=mVrBstuYsfUVga31l6IX&app_code=xphvU-Uj071dI-UkNaxMrg&lg=fre&pois=true&style=default
The tile contains two POIs that do not exists in real life or on other map services like OpenStreetMap. The two are: "Ecobank" and "Restorant Aku".
The place the map shows is around these coordinates: lat:14.729235451930021
lng:-17.46165559897639
The returned tile shouldn't contains inexistant POIs.
This is an error in HERE database. You should report it through HERE Map Creator
It will go through some kind of quality moderation, so it may take a few weeks. Maybe adding a fresh photo would speed up things.
I want business description using google API or wikidata API.
As shown in above image I want to access description (which is highlighted in red circle.) and store it into application database.
What I tried till now, I used google place API to get the place information, using that I am able to get information like review,rating,opening hours. But I am not able to get that information which I have mention in above image. But I do not know how to get that information using Wikidata api or Google Knowledge Graph api.
Can any one suggest me that how can I use that API to get that information.
Any help would be highly appreciated !
Thanks,
I'd also be keen to know if this is possible. For example, with a bounding box. 4 coordinates, might it be possible for Google Knowledge or another API to give me a summing up of the place.
For example: bbox=4.721375,52.290843,5.070190,52.399905
Might return information and history on the city of Amsterdam. Like when you type into Google Search "Amsterdam".
Just a thought. I have previously accomplished this with a very manual combination of Overpass API (related to OSM) and Freebase.
I just found this: Find a place description in Freebase using latitude and longitude?
So, it can be done. And it is already documented.
Since Jan 2012, Google has started highlighting search areas in pick color. See the details here:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.in/2012/01/highlight-areas-in-google-maps.html
Does anyone know if this can be programmatically done using google maps API 3? I would want to show my cities in the map highlighted as shown in the link above.
I have already tried the Geocode API where I search for a city. That API only gives me the lat and long information. It does not help me in plotting the city boundaries.
No. It's not available in the API.
(It may be available in the future. Features of Google Maps do migrate into the API, but Google don't make announcements in advance and no-one has a crystal ball.)
You would need to find the city boundaries and draw the line yourself. Boundary data is almost certainly public-domain for the US. Other jurisdictions may not be so forthcoming.
Although a very old post my answer might help somebody out there as am landing on this post every time I query for bounding box:
Yes we can get the bounding box coordinates that google is using to highlight a region using Googles geocoding service. check for the response of the API call in the below sample from Google.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-simple?refresh=1
I have the same question posted here: How do I search using the Google Maps API?. They mentioned the answer helped, but I still couldn't figure it out. Does anyone have an example of it working or can post the code?
I can get it to work seperately, find your geolocation and also search for restaurants (by typing in coordinates); but I can't seem to combine it into one map that finds your geolocation and then searches for nearest items based on your geolocation. Any ideas on how to make that happen on one map? Or I'd settle for 2 pages, if someone knows how to pass the variables of your geolocation to another page/map to search for restaurants.