I want to create a custom map for my app.
the things i want are:
it will be a custom map designed by us for a event location(not google map).
all the locations will be displayed on the map like google markers.
just like google map i want users to select a location and get direction from his/her current location to selected destination within that area(my main concern).
Are there any possible solutions to this? Any links, suggestions to start with please let me know.
This is very imp. for me..thank you.
I suggest you look at the OpenStreetMap project. They have all the components you need but it is not going to be a simple task for an area of any size
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I used Google Maps in an app and it is likely that multiple markers are attached to same location where each marker represent a person. In this situation user will not know that there are other markers/persons behind this particular marker.
I looked around to handle this situation and one question on So suggests that I can display a single marker and associate all persons with that single marker.
I want to appear toast if multiple user at same location or display multiple user list.
Any help would be highly appreciated
The Simplest way is to use clustering. You can cluster multiple marker into one
using clusterManager
Please refer to following link for detailed explaination
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-api/utility/marker-clustering
A demo for the same is given here
https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-utils/blob/master/demo/src/com/google/maps/android/utils/demo/CustomMarkerClusteringDemoActivity.java
Is it possible to display in house map using MapBox in Android?
For example : I am in one mall and I want to know that what are the directions of particular shop in one mall or I want to know that how many shops of cloths are there in one mall using MapBox?
All your answers and suggestions are valuable and appreciable for me.
Looking forward to your reply.
I am using MapBox Android SDK : https://www.mapbox.com/help/first-steps-android-sdk/
Just to clarify, you are trying to create an indoor map using the Mapbox Android SDK correct? If that is the case, you can follow this guide to tracing the indoor map you have and create a tile set. You then can use it within your Android app by following this example.
Hope this helps
Very sort answer is yes it is possible,
For inhouse may you have to create custom geographical area image for particular mall and its floor
Here is some reference for your idea video for concept here is one concept of showing indoor image either by web service or you can also
Create your own drawable image for indoor map
do you know how can we create our map and show the ways from a certain locations to destinations ? Without using google map , just using a picture of a map , is there any way to draw routes on it?I am not asking projects or codes , just need some suggestions related to drawings and considering the obstacles in the way ?Thank you
You should have your way points in somewhere(maybe in db or in xml file etc) and also for getting map base you should have a map provider like yahoo, bing, google or openstreetmap(which is free to use - no api key needed considering others)
after having these two sources you can use Geoserver(which is opensource map data manipulater and provider) to put these sources together and get them as map base image.
considering your "just using a picture of a map" is an owerwellming issue. Because you will have to do some calculation to find where to put your points programatically. So Geoserver does that automatically.
also I suggest you to hava a look at osmdroid and osmbonuspack they may help.
I am doing the project about map navigation. Currently I work fine with the mapview with GPS and singal route directing. But I can not find anyway that, show the all possible choices on the map, like google map on web.
For example I like to search what restaurants are around my area, so I type "Restaurant" in search bar and search it, the map shold display my current position (I have done this) and also show all the possible restaurants that near my area. After that I pick up one restaurant, and the map will draw the route from my position to the restaurant (I have done this too)
I have spent many time search on internet but couldn't find any critical example explain about this, is there any tutorial I can refer to?
Should I use "webview" to directly show the google map web page on app?
I also meet other problem, I use the way below to directe my route on map, it suppose to draw the route on my app, but insted of that the phone will directly oepn google map and drawn the route on google map, am I do this wrong? Is there any better way?
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(
Uri.parse("http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr="
+GeoPointToString(fromGeoPoint)
+"&daddr="
+GeoPointToString(toGeoPoint)
+"&hl=cn")
);
startActivity(intent);
I am the very new beginner of android programming, hope this is not a silly question, wish you can help me. thanks
If you're trying to make an app using Google Maps, you should use the Google Maps API!
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/
You should be able to download it via your SDK manager in eclipse, or manually install it. I'm using it at work right now, but be wary that you cannot make a commercial app for navigation using these maps.
On the Google maps web interface if you zoom in enough you can see businesses that are clickable. When you click the business you get the a speach bubble with a brief description of the business.
Even on the native android Google map you can tap businesses and get a link to the business information.
My question is that within a MapView is it possible to add my own overlay that when tapped loads the business info of a pre existant business? Is it possible to associate my overlay with a business in some way. I imagine that I could do this if I duplicated the html found on the google map in some way into my overlay, but I was hoping to avoid this.
In the past I have used this. https://github.com/jgilfelt/android-mapviewballoons Not sure how to pull info though.
My question is that within a MapView is it possible to add my own overlay that when tapped loads the business info of a pre existant business?
Assuming you find a source for the data, sure.
I imagine that I could do this if I duplicated the html found on the google map in some way into my overlay, but I was hoping to avoid this.
I highly doubt that will work.
First, you must find a Web service or something that has the data you seek. Then, you need to license that data. Then, you need to figure out how you want to render that data on the map overlay. The first two of those steps are the tricky ones.