I just uploaded a new version, with a few minor tweaks to my Google static maps
demo stack, at Hermann’s suggestions (same link address I sent previously). You
don’t need to get a Google APIKey anymore, but will need it for a real app.
If anybody would like to modify it to work with Bing maps or
Hey guys - just a quick warning about google. Read their TOS very carefully
before building an app around their service. One can find several horror
stories online about Google cancelling contracts without really explaining why.
Bill's stack should work well with a little bit of adaptation for b
On 07/06/2017 10:33 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote:
Mark:
Yes, you’ve done it all.
Cool. It's working as expected then.
It was intended just to demo the display of a Google Static Map and
show how to get the corners of the image so the lat/lon of the mouse
position could be cal
Hi William,
this is a great demo, especially your (clever) library functions.
It works all fine here and it is really the base one needs for getting
everything else through the GMap APIs.
Of course, every LC user from all over the world who is not used to work
with numeric coords would be happy t
Mark:
Yes, you’ve done it all. It was intended just to demo the display of a Google
Static Map and show how to get the corners of the image so the lat/lon of the
mouse position could be calculated. To do that, I had to rely oh Hermann’s
expertise with Javascript to convert a posted solution to L
On 07/06/2017 07:53 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote:
Mark:
H…. I checked it out and the problem is with LC 9.0 (dp7). The openstack
script is in the first card in the main stack. It has the script to start using
the various substacks that are needed. If I open it in LC9, this co
Mark:
H…. I checked it out and the problem is with LC 9.0 (dp7). The openstack
script is in the first card in the main stack. It has the script to start using
the various substacks that are needed. If I open it in LC9, this code somehow
gets disabled and doesn’t show in the IDE editor. So, t
On 07/06/2017 05:31 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote:
Folks:
Thanks to help from Hermann, I am sharing a demo stack that accesses the Google
Static Maps API to display maps. This API allows me to display a terrain map,
and determine the lat/lon values of any point on the map, I will
Thanks for this, Bill
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 6, 2017, at 8:31 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Folks:
> Thanks to help from Hermann, I am sharing a demo stack that accesses the
> Google Static Maps API to display maps. This API allows me to display a
> terrain map, an
