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multi-user map software?
Not sure if such a thing exists, but i'd like to create a site where a user logs in and gets access to a big shared map and can place markers/notes on it which the other logged in users would then be able to see. The map doesn't need to be overly complicated, probably just a large image (no height/terrain data other than what's in the image), and basic controls like being able to zoom in/out and drag the map around would be good. A quick Google finds me loads of commercial mapping stuff which wouldn't be suitable, does anyone know of any existing bit of software which would do this for me?
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Google Maps?
I'm reading through some of the Google Maps API docs, but it seems like it might be overkill for what I want. I won't have any routing data, terrain data or the like, basically just a single big image.
i wanted to do something similar a few years ago with google wave, but it went before i got round to it. I might have a wee google for collaborative image editing and see where that takes me.
edit: so searching for that is giving me lists of online collaborative video editing software. so close...
Go to maps.google.com, click My Places, create your map, save then click Collaborate - that's it
how do i import my map then? (it's not a real place, it's a giant copy of an in-game map). It's also a bitmap, which doesn't appear to be one of the options under the import tool.
You want to use real world map or game map? In case of game map forget about Google Maps.
I want to use a game map, that's why I've this oversized bitmap; sorry for the confusion.
Collaborative real-time image editing appears to be a pretty niche market, but it looks like people have made similar stuff for G+/hangouts for role playing games so I'll look into some of that stuff.
So you want to do something like the dayz maps?
Take a look at http://leafletjs.com/ , and see if that meets your needs.
I would just use WordPress http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/explorable/
http://www.jscraft.net/plugins/craftmap.html would also be pretty easy to code this your self to be honest.
I like the demo here too fast loading for me http://www.jscraft.net/demo/plugins/craftmap/demo2.html
Yup, exactly that, but private/access controlled and with the ability to annotate the map/place markers. as such it wouldn't need to include a full loot map or anything, that's already covered, but it'd make it easier to share details of where people/vehicles/tents are within a squad/clan. I've no idea where the various maps (dayzdb in particular) got their mapping data, my googlefu is too weak to find anything relating to that because of the generality of the terms im using (dayz, map, data, etc).
http://dayzdb.com/map is the ideal example, though it probably does a lot of nice stuff i don't need and not all the stuff i want, it has the map part down.
It might if I can get my existing map cut up into tiles using something else, which I'm already looking into.
It looks like that leverages GoogleMaps API so I'm not sure whether that'd be an option.
you're overestimating my coding ability
that said it does look pretty promising, the lack of a zoom option probably isn't an issue for my purposes but I'm not sure on it's support for placing markers once it's setup. I might try and bodge it together with my map and give it a try.
Thanks for your suggestions guys.