Hello all,
I started a new job working for an HOA. There are literally miles and mile of walls that have to be maintained. I am looking for a way to give them an ID and to have them overlay onto a google map for easy identification. I am considering a street + serial number, or GPS coordinates or ??. On the map, they would be color coded so the map would have some visual indicators.
Any ideas how best to do this?
Thanks,
Tim
OK for others I’m assuming you mean you are working for a Home Owners Association and you need to create a program showing walls withing this association? Just wanted to clear this up for others reading this post.
Yes, that is correct.
I took and Executive Directors job and have not been able to find a good way to track all of the walls we have. Tried different mapping systems but nothing does what I need to do, simply. So being a long time programmer, I thought I would write something.
Tim
Depending on the size of these walls, you might consider What Three Words.
If you do go with What3Words, the API is fairly simple to implement. I didn’t have any significant issues and have these working well in a customer’s production environement.
Or I have classes in GraffitiSuite Desktop and Web for it. They also integrate with GraffitiMapViewer so you can easily map W3W coordinates to Google Maps. You could also make use of Overlays and Shapes (polylines and polygons) with GraffitiMapViewer to easily visualize their location.
Wouldn’t you look at a GIS for this? ArcGIS is commercial but very reasonable; QGIS is free. Your walls could be encoded as a series of GPS coordinate chains. Depending on how you might develop things in the future - you might want to have layers for buildings, utilities and roads; you might want to have different maps or terrain as base. Loads you can do with GIS software.
Regards - Richard.
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