Hi, Barry. Cool example! Short of a full-blown tutorial, I'm interested in seeing an example page of HTML code, including the code for the Google Maps API, that:
- Lets you get a route from A to B. - Uses the Routeboxer method. - Runs this method against a MySQL source in order to display only POIs that are within a certain distance. I totally understand that this is not a trivial issue, but seeing example code that does the above will let me test whether I can pull off this type of page on my own. Thanks for any advice you can offer on finding this type of example. - KP On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:16:36 PM UTC-4, barryhunter wrote: > > Well I can't help you with your actual code, because I can't read your > mind to see it. > > To be frank, this isnt a 'trival' topic, so if you dont have much > experience coding, its might well be trickly to get it right. Might be > worth looking for a developer (no I am not offering!) > > > But inspired by this thread, I just built a quick rough demo > > http://ww2.scenic-tours.co.uk/serve.php?t=WoNlXJvolbOuJL5405otwMM4hZ44OV8hXXb > > Loads photographs along the route (only have photos within the British > Isles). The boxes, have default values that work, just press the Submit > button. > > > The main part that needs work, is how to limit the number of results. > Currently it just takes 100 divided by number of boxes. Then each search is > fired off, asking for that many results. It does also enforce a minimum, to > prevent 0 being used :) > > This is not ideal because if, there is uneven coverage, say a large number > of results in one box, but few in others. Will end up not showing many > results, because the busy box, will still have the same limit. > > To combat, that could actully ask for many more results from each box, but > reduce the number of results actully displayed, once you have all the > results back. > > > Alternatively could send all the bboxes to the server, and let it use them > all when finding images. It could then take care of enforcing a good limit. > > > Doing the server side component, is something can'y really help you with. > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:04 PM, KP > >> Barry, >> >> Thanks so much for the quick response. I'm a non-dev looking for a >> layperson's tutorial or an example that actually does this looping. What >> part of the code does the looping? This will help me do some cutting and >> pasting into what I've got so far. >> >> I've gotten as far as creating a map that displays all of my POIs. Now, >> I'm trying to figure out how to only pull the POIs that fall within the >> range of the route and the box, and I just haven't been able to find a >> walk-through or an example that is at my level of technical ability. Just >> to see if I could do it, I added the RouteBoxer.js code to my existing >> map. I also copied and pasted the code on the examples.html page in. When I >> do this, no map is generated. >> >> Any advice you can offer is much appreciated! >> >> - KP >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:39:43 PM UTC-4, barryhunter wrote: >> >>> The example on the documentation page >>> http://google-maps-utility-**library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/** >>> trunk/routeboxer/docs/**examples.html<http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/routeboxer/docs/examples.html> >>> >>> >>> shows how to loop though the 'boxes' retured from the boxer call. >>> >>> You would probably fire off a ajax request off to your server, which >>> would perform a bounding box search, get the results. One search per box. >>> >>> The actual demo >>> http://google-maps-utility-**library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/** >>> trunk/routeboxer/examples/**routeboxer-v3.html<http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/routeboxer/examples/routeboxer-v3.html> >>> >>> just calls drawBoxes with the list, you need a similar function. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM, KP \ wrote: >>> >>> Michael, >>>> >>>> Can you provide instructions for step 3? I have scoured the web for an >>>> example of Routeboxer in action so that I can build a tool that will let >>>> people map from "A" to "B" and find POIs within a certain distance. I've >>>> copied the Google code and recreated it, but all I get is a map with a box >>>> drawn on it. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help you can provide! >>>> >>>> - KP >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, June 2, 2011 12:19:35 PM UTC-4, michaeld42 wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Tejas, >>>>> >>>>> There must be a lot of different ways to do this, and the 'best' way >>>>> would depend on a lot of different factors, but Routeboxer produces a >>>>> set of LatLngBounds objects, so to use that I'd proceed as I already >>>>> outlined above: >>>>> 1. Use Routeboxer to get set of bounds >>>>> 2. Get list of all markers from database >>>>> 3. 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