Hi everybody, Today I started in Mapstraction and I think this project is amazing!!! I wrote a little library very similar, but not with this weigth. So, I didnt see the Google place services in Mapstraction. I want to know. Have it? If dont, can I write and contribute? Do you have some documentation about the patterns? Regards -- Thiago Victorino @victorinoREAL <http://www.twitter.com/victorinoREAL> www.TirandoDoPapel.com.br -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20121108/70b0715a/attachment.htm>
Hi Thiago, Thanks for the post. Mapstraction doesn''t support places APIs natively, no, however there''s nothing to stop you using Google Places and plotting the results on the Mapstraction map. If you wanted to create a module that can be offered as an add-on to Mapstraction, like the geo location API, then the general guidelines are on the wiki: https://github.com/mapstraction/mxn/wiki/Contributing It should be a separate set of script files with hopefully no changes required to the core files. Main thing to keep in mind is that it should be a generic API and allow you to easily swap to another Places provider, not just work with Google. Easiest way to do this is building for two or three providers to start with e.g. also make it work with the Yahoo! or Bing Places services. The tricky part when doing this is often reformatting the returned data to make it consistent and not just mapping one function name to another. If you decide to give it a go, good luck and I look forward to receiving the pull request. Cheers, Derek On 8 Nov 2012 18:35, "Thiago Victorino" <thiagovictorino at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi everybody, > > Today I started in Mapstraction and I think this project is amazing!!! > > I wrote a little library very similar, but not with this weigth. > > So, I didnt see the Google place services in Mapstraction. I want to know. > > Have it? If dont, can I write and contribute? Do you have some > documentation about the patterns? > > Regards > > -- > Thiago Victorino > @victorinoREAL <http://www.twitter.com/victorinoREAL> > www.TirandoDoPapel.com.br > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapstraction mailing list > Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20121114/9b6efddc/attachment.htm>
Hi Thiago, I am interested in Place geocoding as well and I started coding a Mapstraction API for that. My fork is at https://github.com/stefann42/mxn. Contact me directly if you want to work together on this. Best, Stefan From: mapstraction-bounces at lists.mapstraction.com [mailto:mapstraction-bounces at lists.mapstraction.com] On Behalf Of Derek Fowler Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:00 AM To: mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com Subject: Re: [Mapstraction] Starting Hi Thiago, Thanks for the post. Mapstraction doesn''t support places APIs natively, no, however there''s nothing to stop you using Google Places and plotting the results on the Mapstraction map. If you wanted to create a module that can be offered as an add-on to Mapstraction, like the geo location API, then the general guidelines are on the wiki: https://github.com/mapstraction/mxn/wiki/Contributing It should be a separate set of script files with hopefully no changes required to the core files. Main thing to keep in mind is that it should be a generic API and allow you to easily swap to another Places provider, not just work with Google. Easiest way to do this is building for two or three providers to start with e.g. also make it work with the Yahoo! or Bing Places services. The tricky part when doing this is often reformatting the returned data to make it consistent and not just mapping one function name to another. If you decide to give it a go, good luck and I look forward to receiving the pull request. Cheers, Derek On 8 Nov 2012 18:35, "Thiago Victorino" <thiagovictorino at gmail.com<mailto:thiagovictorino at gmail.com>> wrote: Hi everybody, Today I started in Mapstraction and I think this project is amazing!!! I wrote a little library very similar, but not with this weigth. So, I didnt see the Google place services in Mapstraction. I want to know. Have it? If dont, can I write and contribute? Do you have some documentation about the patterns? Regards -- Thiago Victorino @victorinoREAL<http://www.twitter.com/victorinoREAL> www.TirandoDoPapel.com.br<http://www.TirandoDoPapel.com.br> _______________________________________________ Mapstraction mailing list Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com<mailto:Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com> http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20121122/76aea898/attachment.htm>