Workaround to display KML in Map

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htuser
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Workaround to display KML in Map

Post by htuser »

Dear CSPro Developer Team,
I already write you about, so, it's possible that you consider it. But i would like to display KML vector Area Of Interest during a future survey. Josh already help the community months ago about how to oblige an enumerator to work only on his AOI (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3374&p=10527&hilit=polygon#p10527)
But, i would also like that the enumerator can see the limit of his AOI on a CSEntry dynamic map using latest mapping feature. So, i'm asking myself if you don't have any workaround to display this AOI as a layer on currently supported basemap (Google and Tiles)?
Geographic coordinates stored in lookup file : where each row represents a point in the polygon, will be transformed in a KML polygon file (Thanks to Josh who give us a way to do that in CSPro Logic) and stored on the devices. And we would like to display this KML's AOI on CSEntry Map.

Please let me know if it's right now through some workaround.

Thanks in advance,
G.VOLNY, a CSProuser from Haiti, since 2004
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Re: Workaround to display KML in Map

Post by josh »

What others have done is to create their own basemaps in a GIS package like ArcGIS or QGIS that contains the boundary layer and export that as mbtiles or tpk to use in CSEntry.
htuser
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Re: Workaround to display KML in Map

Post by htuser »

Thank you Josh.
I think about this solution. However, it require to change and upload tile files each time we modify AOI...
So, the solution is to do it dynamically in the future.
Best,
G.VOLNY, a CSProuser from Haiti, since 2004
htuser
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Re: Workaround to display KML in Map

Post by htuser »

Seeking way to do that programatically, i find this:
https://support.google.com/mymaps/answe ... ktop&oco=1

Since the CSPro mapping feature is partly or entirely based in the Map Api of Google, i think, in the future, it will be possible to open this in CSPro Logic for allowing us to display kml file stored on the device as a layer.

What do you think about?
G.VOLNY, a CSProuser from Haiti, since 2004
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