Mapping Solutions

[Tom Murphy]

Hi All

We are currently looking into a hopefully basic mapping solution.

We want to display map in windows using WebView2, when a user drops a pin on the map we want to get the GEO location and save a record in code. And then when the record is found it displays the location on the map.

We don't expect a lot of throughput, although in the future we may be more like routing.

The goto used to be Google Maps but what are the alternatives that people that people have found based on...

- free, cheap
- easy to implement

We're currently looking at Bing Maps, has anyone else used Bing?

[Mike Peat]

Thomas

We've done quite a lot with this stuff. We long ago used both Google Maps and Bing, but there are many, many alternatives these days and many are free.

See my much more recent presentation from Scanduc 2021 for some details, although that stuff - like everything we've done in that area - is Web, not Windows, but it should be adaptable using cWebView2browser to your needs. Some of the code behind that presentation is on GitHub/DataFlexCode: the LeafletLibrary and a demo workspace for it.

Feel free to ask questions. I could do a Zoom (Teams, etc.) demo for you if we can find a time when we are both awake and working!

Mike

[starzen]

we have been using mapping for a long time in our apps for route planning, transportation planning etc

we have used google maps, bing maps, openstreetmaps, mapquest , Leaflet and here

openstreetmap is a free mapping database that can be used with leaflet and mapquest api. it isnt too bad but isnt always as good as commercial data

here maps are very nice and we are using here map for most of our current projects

as far as bing we have used bing maps in some older native mobile apps (windows xamarin based) but have not used it in a project for a while

[Tom Murphy]

Cheers guys, we will definitely check those and the presentation out.

Thank you.

[Sam Neuner]

Testing out your Mapping solution using Mapbox. I have an AccessToken from Mapbox. In the following what is {id}, {z},{x},{y}?:

Set psTileLayer to "https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/{id}/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}?access_token=mykey

[Focus]

Hi Mike

Just downloaded your library & demo

Updated to 23.0 (just edited sws)

I got a LocationIQ key and put it in config.json

On the Simple Map Test I just clicked send and it draws a grey panel with a pin and zoom +/- but no map is displayed

Tried a couple of other views too with same result

The LocationIQ dashboard shows some activity on the geocoding requests but nothing on the map requests

The anBox array in DrawMap is passed data

Did I miss something?

Thanks

OK looking at the page source it seems to be wanting to get the tiles from MapBox i.e. not LocationIq or Mapquest for that matter
OK2 looking a bit further seems that uses a Leaflet API key in config.json so I guess I need to hunt for one of those

[Mike Peat]

Andrew

You'll need a Leaflet key first to display any maps at all. Do you have that?

Mike

[Focus]

That is what was throwing me (the name) as it is actually the MapBox key

Go it working now, thanks

[Mike Peat]

[Focus]

I know it is a demo and the main focus was geocoding but did you consider https://www.thunderforest.com/pricing/ for maps as they seem a lot less than mapbox?