I have been working on campus map project and it was near completion
and today I see that google has added building overlays on the map,
which really is helpful but it seems to be a little problem with the
current map application i have been creating with my own polygons,
which is supposed to go live soon. Also some building names on the
overlay google created are not correct and some new buildings have
been erected which is not on the map. Is there any way or piece of
code where i can remove the default building overlays from the map.
For your reference , heres the link to the map i'm working on:
On Oct 7, 3:57 pm, mayaz <shweta.sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way or piece of
> code where i can remove the default building overlays from the map.
The overlays aren't overlays. They are part of the map tiles.
Your buildings match the satellite imagery far better than the map's
efforts! I would suggest:
(a) raising an Issue about the quality of the mapping for the
University buildings;
(b) consider creating a GGroundOverlay (or more than one depending on
zoom) which you can use to hide the default mapping, and over which
you can add your polygons.
Akkk! It's ok for maps.google.com, but IMO that user data should not
be added to the tiles used by the API!
There's a pretty big risk of user data being innacurate, and it will
create an increasing amount of clutter.
There are a few issues here:
1) Inaccuracy of data:
Please use the "Report a Map Issue" at the bottom to express the inaccuracy.
We are now trying to fix those within a month.
2) Clutter of map:
Yes, there is more information on the map now, and yes, that may not look as
good for your map. We're aware of this and looking for ways to let
developers have more control of it.
I think a good workaround here is a GroundOverlay or TileLayerOverlay that
covers our parts up - that gives you ultimate flexibility. I personally
adore my own uni's implementation: http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/
> Akkk! It's ok for maps.google.com, but IMO that user data should not
> be added to the tiles used by the API!
> There's a pretty big risk of user data being innacurate, and it will
> create an increasing amount of clutter.
I can appreciate the USC overlay, however in order to update this, you
would have to redraw the affected tiles (practically all of them if
your chancellor wants to show the walkways in grey, not beige). I
noticed the base map for my own campus now shows some "historical
district" coloration and a couple of the walkways that look like they
are as thick as roads. I built my campus map on XML data (field
measured, drew in acad, compiled points in civil3d, formatted in
notepad++ and tossed together some js to use it) so I could easily add/
remove a walkway next to a building without redrawing the building...
or, as I just recently had to do, change the color of one and rename
three buildings.
I should submit a KML of the campus sometime, but we've just moved our
facilities dept across the river from campus, demolished the old
building, starting to construct two new buildings and are remodeling a
couple others. As soon as I get some plans from the a/e firm that
don't look like they were drawn with crayons, I'll be submitting some
data. I know Oshkosh isn't as well known as LA, but I've done what I
can to make some neat maps:
