Map Widget"

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

No - I don't even use google. I use bing maps, bing geocoding, and webglearth for 3D.

Google's TOS and reputation scares me.

I just use the browser widget, no other plugin.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 27, 2017, at 12:26 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Jonathon:
> It looks like a Google Earth plugin is needed for Augmented Earth. True? Does that give you installation issues? Does the Map Widget behave well with plugins?
> Bill
> 
>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I use maps in the browser widget extensively for Augmented Earth. It works great.
>> 
>> You could hypothetically export the image data from the HTML canvas object, export the lat/lng boundaries, and present all of that through a LiveCode image object. Be prepared to do a bit of math, but I think it would work.
>> 
>> Many of the map apis allow you to put both markers and polygons on a map with JavaScript, which might give you better performance.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:26 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What I'm thinking about is a map that I can control location and magnification of a google map from livecode, do an image capture, and draw symbols on that capture. I would need to be able to recover the latitude and longitude of the displayed map boundaries.
>>> 
>>> I remember some discussions about whether image capture works with browser windows.
>>> 
>>> If anybody has wisdom on whether this will work, before I spend a bunch of time researching this, I'd be grateful. There is, I think, an API to google Earth, which might be something to look into.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill P
>>> 
>>> William Prothero
>>> http://es.earthednet.org
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 8:04 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I do not believe you can have a google map not in a browser. That is to say, you cannot have a google INTERACTIVE map. You can certainly drop screenshots in as graphics. 
>>>> 
>>>> Bob S
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 26, 2017, at 19:31 , William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I found this link on the LC site. 
>>>>> https://livecode.com/map-widget-coming-to-livecode/ <https://livecode.com/map-widget-coming-to-livecode/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a map widget? Anybody working with google maps, not in a browser? If so, could you point me to a URL for a starter
>>>>> Bill
>>>>> 
>>>>> William A. Prothero
>>>>> http://earthlearningsolution.org/
>>>> 
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