Questions tagged [google-maps]
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How do I efficiently search for all the landmarks within a range of a certain landmark?
I am trying to start with a geo search project that will find all landmarks in the 10 km/miles (not important for this story) of a particular landmark.
So for example, lets say I have a database of a 1,000,000 landmarks. In order to find all…
Dario Granich
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Grouping search results on a map
I am building a mobile app which lets users search for POIs around them on a map. I am curious to know what would be the best way to "group/paginate" these results in order to avoid downloading hundreds of search results at once from the server?
I…
Balázs Vincze
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Google Map API as an actor to my system
My system will deal with Google map API to locate user's location after his/her request.
I am drawing the use case diagram and wondering if "Google Map API" should be an external actor to my system or not.
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Feasibility of Delievery App
In my town, recently a delivery company has been opened (think DoorDash but on a much smaller scale and only doing local deliveries).
Now what really confuses me is that they charge pennies for each delivery and they offer a quite smooth delivery…
Freshman's Dream
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Best way to lookup cities/provinces and regions
I have a multi-language web site. On the web site, users can search products and services by geographic areas.
I am asking which is best approach to performs search of geographic areas. In this moment I am using geographic coordinates.
I stored in…
Simone
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What are formats to store geographic maps for a robot to travel point A to point B
Very beginner. Need to compute route from A to B for a robot. i would like to know how to store area map and compute the route. I can compute shortest path etc using algorithms e.g. dijkstra. What format of maps are used for efficiency.
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Adams
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How to handle Google Maps locations storage and fetching
I'm developing a google maps application with 50 locations/markers and expecting it to reach about 1000 in a month, each location has a separate database record with properties:
Name, Description, Latitude, Longitude, Address (Country, City,…
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Why was Google Maps built using canvas? If it was built today, would it have rather used react/angular? Why (not)?
Google Maps' frontend is almost completely dependent on canvas.
Given that it was initially developed a long time ago, is it still the best approach to take to build such a UI? If not, what is and why?
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