I'm trying to make my first Windows 10 UA desktop app. I have a working map, but it shows the road type of map. The problem with this is, the detail isn't there, and may people won't be able to get enough info out of this.
Is there a way I can switch the map view from a road to a satellite map?
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Sorry I miss understood, didn't realize you where using the MapControl class. Below is a link that explains how to use 3d aerial and street views (towards the bottom)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/mt219695.aspx
the code you are looking for is something like
MapControl1.Style = MapStyle.Aerial3DWithRoads;
Absolutely! You can use the Bing maps API. http://www.microsoft.com/maps/choose-your-bing-maps-API.aspx
Here is a link to a guide on getting started.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff428643.aspx
From the API you can then select the satellite map instead of the road.
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I am trying to create a markdown editor for fun and because I was interested in learning TextKit. I am working on iOS devices only, so I only have UIKit framework at my disposal, also I watched this WWDC18 video which explains some best practices to adopt with TextKit. At first I was really interested in knowing how to get the same result that the video shows at 22:13.
The code shown by the dev in the video makes use of AppKit and it wraps code in that rectangle by replacing the code section with a NSMutableParagraphStyle and by providing a custom NSTextBlock to the latter. As you can guess, I can't subclass NSTextBlock in UIKit and therefore I can't replicate the example shown.
I have something a little bit harder to ask though, what I really wanted to replicate is the GitHub application code block style, this is the final result that I would like to replicate:
As you can see it should have a rounded rectangle with a custom background color and also it needs to be scrollable in order to make code expand as much as it needs (I am not interested in syntax highlighting).
How can I achieve something like this if NSTextBlock is not available in UIKit?
For the moment all I have done is override NSTextStorage to set the correct font to the code section with custom NSAttributedString.
I have investigated in the app and noticed that it is managed by Ryan Nystrom which is the creator of GitHawk prior to moving to GitHub. The GitHawk markdown reader is very similar to the one that you find in the GitHub application and the funny thing is that GitHawk is open source so I took a look at that code and tried to understand how that could be replicated.
Turns out that GitHawk heavily uses IGListKit framework and parses markdown in ListDiffable elements, specifically the code blocks ListDiffables are given to a ListSectionController that created an horizontal UIScrollView to display code.
I gave up trying to understand more on this because GitHawk code is really really entangled and it is really hard, near impossible, to extract the specific functionality.
I am working on a project where Users can interact with a Map via mouse click to see more details of an area. It is Perth Metropolitan Area Map. This Map is generated from PDF using online "PDF to SVG converter".
When I looked at generated SVG code it is so huge can't understand full of it. and did some research to see if i can find any simpler version of the Map, I see there are various options to construct SVG, detailed below.
Shapefiles : Creating maps based on real world data, I thought this is good option to go. but the problem I observed here is we need to depend on GIS tools and open databases where GIS data is available. It is too heavy for our requirement.
Geo JSON / Topo JSON : I see this is simple way to represent Maps in plain, but I could not figure out a way to generate required JSON files. After exploring more on this I understood these technologies are dependent on GIS / Shapefiles.
Inscape : UI editor to draw SVG - It is just generating lot of SVG code again.
After reviewing above all I kind of thinking may be I should learn to write own SVG map.
Can somebody advice whether I am in right direction or Are there any simple approaches to create a Map like this Perth Metropolitan Area Map ?
Thanks in advance.
I'm planning to write a Kivy app containing a (small) offline map. Kivy's Mapview widget seems to be a good choice to display maps but before I start diving into it further one question that I couldn't figure out: Is it possible to use Mapview offline, by using locally stored tiles?
I managed to do it, it turns out it is not that complicated to do but it took some research (at least for a beginner like me). Here is a rough outline:
1. MapView supports mbtiles as source as detailed in the documentation - mbtiles can be created in TileMill
2. I wanted a map in Openstreetmap style, so I downloaded openstreetmap-carto from github. The installation manual explains quite well what needs to be done in order to obtain a map in this style
4. There the biggest challenge was to set up and manipulate a PostGIS database. This link helped: http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=loading_osm_postgis
There were some additional issues along the way but all could be solved by combing through the internet.
I want too build a web application, and I am looking at the tools I will have to use.
I want to use a real time map
I'm a thinking about :
Tilemill to get .png in order to constitue the background of my maps
or get data from a webite in shp files to build layers for this in mapnik.
Mapnik Build layers with the data I want to add on my map.
Mapnik : Put layers together and generate a map.
TileStache : generate tiles for my application.
Openlayers : Display my map with tiles in a browser.
Once my map is displayed, I'd like to add interactivity. For example when you go over a line or a circle (a town/ an event), then it gives you the attributes of this object.
But the lines and circles will integrated dirctly to the mapnik map, so I need to add some javascript to make it dynamic and open a pop-up. How do I do this ? Using Openlayer javascript libraries or node.js.
What is your advice on the question/the way I want to use theese tools?
Thanks a lot!
I'm in a similar situation, so I don't know the answer, but from what I've been able to figure out I think you're on the right track.
I started off using the Mapbox approach, which simplifies things as long as your data is static. You use Tilemill not only to generate your PNG tiles (once you've used Carto to do some nice styling) but also to import your data sets.
TileMill can export your TileJSON and UTFGrid files with the PNG tiles all packaged up and ready to use. Mapbox will then host all that stuff for you, and you can use their mapbox.js library (an extension of Leaflet) to bring it all together in the browser, with full interactivity. Opening popups would be something you'd do in Javascript in the browser - and if you mean infoWindows (the overlay window that's associated with a map point) then that would be a call to the Leaflet API.
If you're happy to create your layers and import your data offline this approach seems to be really simple and powerful; Mapbox will even render out tiles using multiple layers overlaid - so for example you can see your circles on top of a satellite image, merged into a single PNG.
The problem really comes in when your data needs to be live and you can't therefore prepare it all ahead of time in TileMill. I'm still trying to figure this all out but it does seem as though a combination of TileStache and Mapnik would be able to serve you up the TileJSON, GeoJSON and UTFGrid files you'd need as well as the tiles themselves, in the way you've outlined in the question.
You might also want PostGIS and GeoDjango or similar behind the scenes in order to hold and manage your live data, respectively.
As I said, I'm still trying to actually get my full stack working so I can't vouch for this 100% but if your data is gathered upfront then I'd definitely recommend the TileMill route for simplicity's sake.
I hope that's a help!
for my job, I'm looking into an idea in which people would use Google Search by Image and use any celebrity photo they find. Google would return the results and then on our end, a there'd be a database of professionals showing how to get that specific look.
I'm assuming this is extremely unlikely to do, based on that users could use ANY photo.
So, is there a way that I could have about 100 or so celebrity photos that Google Image results could compare to and then choose the one that is closest.
Basically:
Drag drop photo of Britney Spears
Google searches with that image
Google's results compare the top images with our 100, and selects the closest match.
User gets to see video of how to get Britney Spears look.
I'm not a programmer, but looking for some API or Search by Image extension that could make this remotely possible for the programmers here at my job. Does something like that (a search by image api) exist? The best I could find was just the support page, which is hardly of any help: http://support.google.com/images/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=searchbyimagepage&answer=1325808
You can easily search by an existing image by inserting this into your address bar:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?site=search&sa=X&image_url=YOUR_IMAGE_URL
Example:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?site=search&sa=X&image_url=http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/so-icon.png
Sorry to say, but the Google image API is deprecated:
Important: The Google Image Search API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be limited.
Quite sure there are some alternatives (http://www.tineye.com/ and http://mrisa.mage.me.uk)
Update (2013): There is now Google Custom Search which allows image searches.
These answers are quite obsolete, but the question comes up in searches. So, the Google Vision API has the "web detection" feature that does a reverse image search. First 1000 requests per month are free, $3.50/1000 afterwards.
I think Google Web Detection could be a solution for you. Google moved it permanently from Image search
You can do it via www.images.google.com but only from a browser (lets you upload your own image and compares it to similar).
I'm working on doing it from code (not from browser).
I had the same problem and came up with two solutions:
There are a number of APIs that give reverse image search results nowadays. The ones I used are https://reverseimageapi.com and TinEye.com.
As the selected answer mentions, you can easily scrape this information but will almost certainly need rotating proxies to prevent being banned by the search engine. There are plenty of proxy rotation services (Zyte, Oxylabs, ScrapingBee, etc.) to make you life easier.
I ended up going with option 1 due to the upkeep of scraping search engines and elements changing / breaking.