Hi Megan, I am nearly done with our campus map. If you have google talk IM me! calwestcultu...@gmail.com I too work for a university. Washington State's map is brilliant!
- L. Akita On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:43:41 AM UTC-7, regularmegs wrote: > > Does anyone have any information on the best way to create a university > map? I work for a university in the Midwest and we are trying to update our > campus map from a static PDF to a more interactive Google map. Many of our > buildings are missing from Google Maps and my efforts with Google Map Maker > have been fruitless. I made some edits that sat there for two months before > I got an email saying that they were approved, but they never showed up on > the map. I've looked into the Base Map Partner Program, but we don't have > the correct file formats that Google requires and I do not know how to > obtain them. If anyone knows how to get those correct formats, I would very > much appreciate some help. > > I just want to create a simple map with all of our buildings on it and > access to layers with parking and dining information. KML polygons for our > buildings do not seem to be the best option since that much KML loads > slowly for our large campus. Image overlays also load slowly. Ideally, I'd > like to build something like this: http://www.washington.edu/maps/ but I > do not know how they made the image tiles. If anyone can give me some > pointers on this project, I would really appreciate it. I've been > researching for about a month and I am at my wits' end. I've never worked > with interactive maps before and have limited experience with Javascript, > so any help would be much appreciated. Also, if anyone knows who to contact > at Google about a project like this, please let me know. Thanks for your > help. > > Megan > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/weTZdW-oxrUJ. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
