Google Static Maps Demo Available

[Mark Wieder]

On 07/06/2017 05:31 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote:
> Folks:
> Thanks to help from Hermann, I am sharing a demo stack that accesses the Google Static Maps API to display maps. This API allows me to display a terrain map, and determine the lat/lon values of any point on the map, I will take a snapshot of the map image and draw symbols on it that will represent geophysical data.
> 
> You can download the demo at:
> http://earthlearningsolutions.org/google-static-maps-demo/ <http://earthlearningsolutions.org/google-static-maps-demo/>

Well... erm... not quite sure what I've got going on here.

I picked up an api key from Google, but I couldn't paste it into the 
text field. And I couldn't enter more than one character manually. I 
finally brought up the property editor a couple of times until I could 
get rid of the single character and then type the api key into the field 
one character at a time. That seemed to work.

Went out of edit mode and tried to click on the map. That triggered a 
script error, so I figured it needed to do some setup stuff (loading 
libraries, etc) with the api key in place. I saved the stack and quit 
and reloaded the IDE. I launched the stack again and clicked the 'load 
map' button. That triggered a series of errors to the point where I 
finally had to disable messages and shut it all down.

Obviously I'm missing out on something, but I'm not sure what.
But it looks like a promising app.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com