I'm looking for any help or suggestions for existing apps that can do
(something like) what I want to do - could even be a clever way to use a
feature I've not found in Google maps, or pple maps, or ...
I have a reasonable number (i.e. 10 - 200 !!) - not a small number where
I would be willing to use a somewhat cumbersome, overly-manual method,
nor a huge number where it would need to be highly automated - *named*
places that I want to capture a GPS location for (say, a list of all the
houses in my neighbourhood).
I want to finish up with a table of 'address to GPS location' (for later
use on a helpful web-site). Google Maps's "address lookup" feature
doesn't work for my situation (named houses in a rural location; it does
OK for numbers in a street in urban places in the US, but not for me
here :-)
Using Google (or Apple) Maps to capture 'current loc' is fine - but all
you get is a marker that you can share with their own app - or can share
via notes/email/ ... and that doesn't even make it easy to label the
location. And I *want* to download the list of addresses - I do *not*
want to be re-typing them on a phone. So this approach (unless there's a
feature I've missed) is just too cumbersome for 10s or 100s of locations.
It would be the most trivial app to write in LC
- ask the postcode
- download the list of addresses in that postcode, and put it into a
selection control
- have a button that takes current location and stores it for the
selected address
[walk along the road, selecting and clicking as I pass each house :-) ]
- upload the completed file of locations + addresses
BUT - I would need to figure out how to build an iOS and/or Android app,
and how to release it or get it on to the phones of my volunteers, which
seems to be so troublesome I'd rather avoid it :-)
So I'm hoping there's some existing app I can use (or misuse) to get the
task done.
Many thanks
Alex.
P.S. yes, I know I can buy this data, but doing that is well our of my
budget :-)
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