How to make an offline interactive map with overlays.
October 7, 2010 9:15 AM Subscribe
How can I make an interactive map with KML overlays (clickable points of interest) that will work offline, and cross platform?
So I have a project where I want to be able to load up a few hundred points of interest onto a map of a small city. I want these points to be click-able so they have a pop-up box that expands with more information. I want the map to pan zoom and scroll like google maps. I also want all of this to work offline on a tablet computer, so no internet connection. And, of course, I also want a pony.
What I am thinking is to use open layers and a local copy of open street map tiles (simple roadmap base layer). This way it would run in javascript and should work on most browsers and operating systems. Only problem is I cant find any documentation on how to get openlayers to load the tiles off of my hard drive. Or for that matter if it will even be able to load a KML file offline.
Is there a way to do this? Are there other programs/scripts/projects I should be looking into for this? Or any ready made solutions?
As for resources, assume no budget, and a not so good programmer who is however quite good at dissecting and poking at example scripts and modifying them for the job at hand.
So I have a project where I want to be able to load up a few hundred points of interest onto a map of a small city. I want these points to be click-able so they have a pop-up box that expands with more information. I want the map to pan zoom and scroll like google maps. I also want all of this to work offline on a tablet computer, so no internet connection. And, of course, I also want a pony.
What I am thinking is to use open layers and a local copy of open street map tiles (simple roadmap base layer). This way it would run in javascript and should work on most browsers and operating systems. Only problem is I cant find any documentation on how to get openlayers to load the tiles off of my hard drive. Or for that matter if it will even be able to load a KML file offline.
Is there a way to do this? Are there other programs/scripts/projects I should be looking into for this? Or any ready made solutions?
As for resources, assume no budget, and a not so good programmer who is however quite good at dissecting and poking at example scripts and modifying them for the job at hand.
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Google Earth apparently works with Mac, Linux and Windows - but maybe that's not cross platform enough? For Iphone (and Ipad, I presume) I use the MyMaps app to cache my Google My Maps. There's probably similar for Android.
posted by backwards guitar at 10:03 AM on October 7, 2010