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Joe Torraca
Joe Torraca

Reputation: 2018

Google Maps Textured Maps

I am implementing a map into my website and am looking at the different options(Google Maps API, Bing Maps, OpenStreet Maps, MapBox, etc.). I am leaning more towards Google Maps because of their geo-coding and pricing, but definitely willing to change to a different system. After downloading and using iOS 6 maps, the cartography has definitely caught my attention. I really love how Apple uses textures on the maps(grassy textures for parks, paper texture for land). I was wondering if there was any way to overlay similar textures onto any of the aforementioned map systems? Not in just one portion, but across the entire world. I know you can change the colors, just not sure if any support textures. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I think I know how to do this beyond the APIs but a system built into the API would definitely be beneficial.

Maps Comparison

iOS 6 Cartography:

iOS 6 Maps Cartography

Google Maps Cartography:

Google Maps Cartography

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1321

Answers (2)

Plutoz
Plutoz

Reputation: 703

When you get a map segment from a given map API, you generally download pre-rendered map slices (images). These images rendered only when the map data updated, not all the queries, so you can't influence the rendering of these pictures.

If you want custom textures you have 2 ways:

  • Build your own web service and render own map slices from raw map data (ex.: openstreetmap data)
  • Render dinamically maps directly on the phone from raw data.

Both ways you will need to get raw data to render because google doesn't provide it.

Upvotes: 2

teddybeard
teddybeard

Reputation: 2014

According to the API documentation, you can only edit:

  • hue
  • lightness
  • saturation
  • gamma
  • inverse_lightness
  • visibility
  • color
  • weight

Upvotes: 1

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