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Maps, Annotations and Geolocation

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Maps, Annotations and Geolocation

Postby peterjunsworth » Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:25 pm

I am building a web app which will require annotating a map within a specified radius around a user selected area (suburb, city or zip).
I just wanted to reach out to get opinions on the best technology to utilize and experiences people have had.
I plan to deploy this across mobile devices so light weight would be great.

Thoughts so far:

Native (obj-c) - prefer not to if possible
Tile5 mobile mapping
Phone gap
HTML5 Geolocation

Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks
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Re: Maps, Annotations and Geolocation

Postby zcorpan » Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:05 pm

Geolocation doesn't help you with the "mapping", it just gives you the user's position.

If what you want to do is draw a circle on top of a map, I guess you could use SVG for that.
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Re: Maps, Annotations and Geolocation

Postby peterjunsworth » Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:33 pm

My wording in initial question was a little off and was really just asking about people experiences with development with mapping and annotating maps.

I have begun experimenting with the google maps API and seem to have hit a major issue with IOS6
In IOS6, and trying to obtain users location - you are not prompted for allowing permissions to current location, but instead just prompted with a 'permission denied' notice.

Reading up, it was suggested to add <meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" /> after detecting IOS6 but this does not seem to have solved the issue.

This issue must be due to the release of Apple's own mapping solution - anyone got a work around?
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