Google Static Maps Demo Available

[William Prothero]

I just uploaded a new version, with a few minor tweaks to my Google static maps demo stack, at Hermann’s suggestions (same link address I sent previously). You don’t need to get a Google APIKey anymore, but will need it for a real app.

If anybody would like to modify it to work with Bing maps or OSM, that would be great and I’d like to see it. Be careful, though, as a critical need, for my intended purpose, is to have the lat/lon values of the corners of the displayed map. The calculations that work for Google may not work for the other map services. For apps that generate a gazillion hits, you may have to pay, too.

Best,
Bill P

> On Jul 7, 2017, at 7:59 AM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys - just a quick warning about google. Read their TOS very carefully before building an app around their service. One can find several horror stories online about Google cancelling contracts without really explaining why.
> 
> Bill's stack should work well with a little bit of adaptation for bing maps and OSM providers.
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 7, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07/06/2017 10:33 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Mark:
>>> Yes, you’ve done it all.
>> 
>> Cool. It's working as expected then.
>> 
>> It was intended just to demo the display of a Google Static Map and show how to get the corners of the image so the lat/lon of the mouse position could be calculated. To do that, I had to rely oh Hermann’s expertise with Javascript to convert a posted solution to LCS. I spent time carefully checking that the corners calculation agreed with the box plotted by the maps api. The map image is also slightly stretched horizontally (to fit my own project map size) and I had to do some tweaking to the corners code to make that work.
>>> The links to the Google API get the programmer to the web site that tells how to display streets, display a map of a particular city or other feature, add symbols, etc. For those who need to do that, this should help. It’s pretty trivial to change the URL params, so I felt I could leave that to the user. Actually, the entire thing is pretty trivial, but it did take me quite a bit of time, thrashing through the details because I’d never worked with the Google maps api, so perhaps others might find it useful.
>>> My project will continue and plot data on a captured image, scroll the map, etc. I hadn’t planned on including that part in the demo, but could, if requested.
>> 
>> The demo doesn't seem to be trivial at all, especially looking at the libraries involved - you've put a lot of work into that.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark Wieder
>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
>> 
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