Multimap API Development Forum Forum

Encoding Russian addresses?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:09:38 Z

I am trying to import a list of Russian suppliers and not having any luck.

An example address is
Трубная пл., д.2
Moscow
107031
Russian Federation

Multimap geocodes asfar as Moscow, and then stops. Is there a way around this, without having to convert all street names to latin text, as there are hundreds, and this would be very impractical?

Thanks in advance for your help,
regards,
Paul

API 1.2 Marker

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:57:57 Z

Hello,

It is my first time using the multimap api and I have one issue. I create and insert the marker for the current position, however all browser insert the marker in the ocean (off the base tip of Africa) instead of my current position, except for Opera that positions the marker correctly.

Could some one review my code and tell me if I got it wrong and how i can correct it. Thanks.

<script type="text/javascript"
>	
	function
 onLoad() {
		mapviewer = MMFactory.createViewer ( document.getElementById( 'mapviewer'
 ) );
		mapviewer.goToPosition ( new
 MMAddress( { postal_code : 'SW4'
, 'country_code'
 : 'GB'
 } ) , 16 );
		mapviewer.addWidget ( new
 MMMapTypeWidget() );
		mapviewer.addWidget ( new
 MMPanZoomWidget() );
		var
 marker = mapviewer.createMarker ( mapviewer.getCurrentPosition() );
	}
	MMAttachEvent( window, 'load'
, onLoad );
</script>

XML Portal geo search - combined fields

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:32:32 Z

The documenation for the XML Portal's geographical search service (http://www.multimap.com/share/documentation/products_and_modules/xml_portal.htm#geo) indicates that the street and town need to be specified as two distinct parameters in the service request.

This is a problem, since when you have applications with a free-text search field, we have no means to split this up into street and town.

Does this service, or a similar service, provide a means to take a single search term, and intelligently have it figure out which bits of the term refer to what?

MM_API_ERROR_SERVICE_NOT_PROVISIONED Issue with OpenAPI

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:38:06 Z

Hey all,

I'm having a sleight unknown issue with the OpenAPI. After developing the application that uses the API for many months with it working fine, then coming back to the particular class of code which handles the API requests I find the requests are in-fact reject with the above error code. I'm using the OpenAPI, version 1.2 and not using SSL.

Example URI request the class used:

http://developer.multimap.com/API/route/APIKEY/1.2/?qs_1=ADDRESS1&countryCode_1=GB&qs_2=ADDRESS2&countryCode_2=GB

The support guy on the phone reckons this kind of error comes up with the commercial API only but we're not touching it at the moment which begs more questions to why this error is cropping us.

Thank you ever so much for reading and any ideas you possibly have that could help resolve this issue.

Kind regards,

Nathan

Centering a map on an Easting and Northing

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:46 Z

Is it possible to center a map on an Easting & Northing rather than Lat/Lon?

Map preferences

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:41:16 Z

Hi there

On our implementation of the API, we use only OS Landranger 1:50k and Explorer 1:25k maps.

To facilitate this we use the code:

function onLoad() {

  mapviewer = new MultimapViewer( document.getElementById( 'mapviewer' ) );

  var newprefs = [];

  newprefs.push(904);

  newprefs.push(932);	var maptype = MM_WORLD_MAP;

  MMDataResolver.setDataPreferences( maptype, newprefs );

This works fine. However explorer maps (932) only show at zoom level 16, by which point the map looks very large. Is there any way we could make explorers show at zoom 15 (and maybe 14) and just use the landrangers at 13?

Cheers.

Intermittent problem getting XML lat/lon

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:25:49 Z

Hi,

I have a problem with Geocode! I have been getting the lat/lon from your XML files based on postcode. My map has been online and working fine for about a year now. The other week I discovered that the the PHP code had stopped working which I was using to get the lat and lon from your XML files, although it still worked for me from a web browser...

http://developer.multimap.com/API/geocode/1.2/[api key]?qs=[postcode]

My own XML file, which was been automatically populated with the lat/lon by a cron job, was suddenly coming up with blanks for lat and lon. I hadn't made any changes to my code.

Anyway, I thought I'd create a simple test file to try to see what was happening (see below) so I did that, and couldn't find the problem, so I gave up for a while... then I tried my test file a few days later aiming to really spend some time delving in to the problem.... and it was magically working again, and echoing the latitute and longitute in my array perfectly!

BUT, i've noticed again today that the lat and lon's have disappeared again, so i went back to my test file (still the same one!) and it had stopped working again.

I just wondered if you had any ideas what the problem could be? Could you run this file and see if it works for you? Has there been an intermittent problem on the XML geocode or has somthing changed recently (and changed back again, then changed back)? Could I be making too many requests or something? would it help if i gave you my API key?

Many thanks indeed,

Kind regards,

Jen

<?php
class xml_story{
    var $lat, $lon;
}
function startTag($parser, $data){
    global $current_tag;
    $current_tag .= "*$data";
}
function endTag($parser, $data){
    global $current_tag;
    $tag_key = strrpos($current_tag, '*');
    $current_tag = substr($current_tag, 0, $tag_key);
}
function contents($parser, $data){
    global $current_tag, $xml_lat_key, $xml_lon_key, $counter, $story_array;
    switch($current_tag){
        case $xml_lat_key:
            $story_array[$counter] = new xml_story();
            $story_array[$counter]->lat = $data;
            break;
        case $xml_lon_key:
            $story_array[$counter]->lon = $data;
            $counter++;
            break;
    }
}


$xml_file  = "http://developer.multimap.com/API/geocode/1.2/[api key]?qs=SY208NR" . str_replace(' ', '',$location );
$xml_lat_key  =  "*RESULTS*LOCATION*POINT*LAT";
$xml_lon_key = "*RESULTS*LOCATION*POINT*LON";

$story_array = array();

$counter = 0;

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startTag", "endTag");

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "contents");

$fp = fopen($xml_file, "rb") or die("Could not open file");
$data = stream_get_contents($fp) ;

if(!(xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)))){
    die("Error on line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser));
}

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

fclose($fp);

for($x=0;$x<count($story_array);$x++){
    $lat = $story_array[$x]->lat;
    $lon = $story_array[$x]->lon;
}

echo $xml_file;
echo '<br/>';
print_r($story_array);

?>

Multimap API error

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:22:01 Z

I'm an happy user since a while of the Multimap API but I've seen this morning an incorrect behaviour on my site, and this problem occurs with the sample "Options" too...

If you double-click on the displayed map, the clicked point is correctly centered afterwards. But if you create a zoom-box, the center of the zoom-box is shifted to East after the map updating !

I don't know since when this problem occurs, it could be a lot of time... A few months ago, this problem was inexistent and I don't have changed the related coding since then.

Thanks in advance for your awaited fix and congrats for this powerful API,
Germain

PS: no way to create this thread using the French interface because the Multimap API forum isn't listed at all !!!

Changing the Cursor

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:41:43 Z

Just wondering if I can change the cursor shown over the whole map object?

I've tried setting the css style ("cursor: pointer;") but to no avail...

OS 1:25,000 Explorer maps

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:12:41 Z

I'm reading a blog posting from Multimap which says that Explorer maps are available in the Multimap API . Does that include the Open API? If so can someone tell me which magic numbers I need. I currently have

    MMDataResolver.setDataPreferences( MM_WORLD_MAP, [904]);

    mapviewer.setZoomFactor(15);
    mapviewer.setAllowedZoomFactors (13,15);

which gives me 1:50,000 with three levels of zoom.

Thanks

Mass update of Polylines

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:25:07 Z

Does anybody know of a way to set an option for all Polylines in a map in one go?

I hav many lines with many points on my map, and need to change whetehr they are clickable or not. I am currenlty doing this by looping through them all, but this is getting very slow as I add more polylines:

for ( routeid in polylines){
polylines[routeid].reset( LatLonPoints[routeid], { clickable : false } );
}

(polylines is an array containing all the polylines, and LatLonPoints is an array containing the points array for each polyline)

Event Handler for Clicks on a Polyline

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:22:26 Z

Hi,

I'm sure this should be really straightforward, but I can't get and event handler working to pick up clicks on a Polyline. I've tried to base it on this example, which uses closed filled polygons - http://www.multimap.com/apidocs/1.2/demos/clickablepolygons.htm, but to no avail. Also tried chopping around some of the code from here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/multimapapi/thread/d4a5fa90-b5c5-45b4-b4b8-2e5745e58131 but again no luck.

Here's a basic snippet of my latest efforts:

    polyline = new MMPolyLineOverlay( points, '#FF0000', 0.5, 1,  true, '#FFFF00', true );

...

  

    mapviewer.addEventHandler( 'click', eventHandler );

    

...



function eventHandler(eventType, target, arg3, arg4, arg5)  {
	if( target instanceof MMPolyLineOverlay ) {
		alert( "You clicked on the Line!" );
	}else{   
		alert( "Don't know where you clicked!" ); 
	}
}

I think the main problem is that I can't find out what values the "target" parameter takes, and how to handle it.

To try and work out what the I tried just making the event handler:

function eventHandler(eventType, target, arg3, arg4, arg5)    

{

    alert( target );

}

this just returns [object Object].

Can anybody point me in the right direction?!

Thanks

Aidan

100% map width?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:14:35 Z

Hi,

I'm trying to get a map of 100% of browser window size as follows, but it doesn't work:

<div id="mapviewer" style="width : 100%; height : 100%;">

Is there a way to achieve this?

Thanks

Aidan

Map Types widget with explicit OS Map button.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:00:46 Z

I really like the explicit OS Map button on the multimap.com website. I think it's easier to use than the standard MMMapTypeWidget in the Open API.

Is it possible to use this widget using the Open API?

best wishes,
Alasdair

Multimap - static map - Route

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:07:36 Z

Hi, I have a problem with static maps when I draw a route.
The result of route it's wrong, for example:

http://developer.multimap.com/API/map/1.2/[api_key]?routeKey=IT,10.35474:43.63986;10.39277:43.71589,0&width=400&height=400&routeColor=255,0,0&routeOpacity=1

return a polyline wrong.
In this example, I have the corret result:

http://www.multimap.com/directions/?mode=walking&qs_2=via%20san%20vito%2C%20pisa&displayName_2=via%20san%20vito%2C%20pisa&lat_1=43.66302&lat_2=43.71542&mapData=915&qs_1=via%20livornese%2C%20pisa&displayName_1=via%20livornese%2C%20pisa&lon_1=10.34974&lon_2=10.39302&countryCode_2=IT&countryCode_1=IT

How can I to have the same result with static maps?
Thx in advance,
Daniele

MMFactory is not defined

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:59:09 Z

Hi,
I am giving a postcode and country code and corresponding to that I am taking the information of that area.
I am using MMFactory.createSerachRequester(..) for searching.
When first time I am making the search, there is no JS error but when I refresh the page and search then there is a JS error saying that "MMFactory is not defined."
This error appears randomly. Not everytime it occurs.
Can anybody help me.

Brij

More results per search.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:00:26 Z

Aparently all my searchs are limited to 10 results and I would like to change it.

Is it possible to receipt more than 10 results per search? how?

Thanks

Multimap Web Services help

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:03:49 Z

Following the Multimap API V1.2 Web Services Documentation - Searching documentation but having some issues.

I have to use classic asp. I am grabbing the xml file, and xsl to output it.

EXAMPLE OF MY ASP CODE:

		strURL=** my url with api key ***
		set oXMLhttp = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
			oXMLhttp.open "GET", strURL, False
			oXMLhttp.send
		set oXMLsource = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
			oXMLsource.async = false
			oXMLsource.loadxml(oXMLhttp.responseText)			
		set oXSL = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
			oXSL.async = false
			oXSL.load(server.mappath("xsl/multimap.xsl"))
	    	ResultsFeed = oXMLsource.transformNode(oXSL)		
		Response.Write(ResultsFeed)

EXAMPLE OF MY XSL CODE:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
	<table summary="api test" cellspacing="0">
		<thead>
			<th scope="col">Distance</th>
		</thead>
		<tbody>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="//Record"></xsl:apply-templates>
		</tbody>
	</table>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="Record">
	<tr>
		<td>
			<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Distance/Miles"/>mi 
			(<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Distance/KM"/>km)
		</td>
	</tr>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I have been able to get this code to work if i remove xmlns="http://clients.multimap.com/API" from the RecordSets node. Otherwise it returns nothing. I am sure it is a bad idea to remove this.

What am i doing wrong? I am sure I am doing something wrong.

MMMarkerOverlay - Info Boxes and Clustering

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:41:00 Z

When I hook up the event to fire on the openInfoBox and I'm using clustering then I cannot set the html of the info box by calling the setInfoBoxContent, it works fine if the overlay has not come from a cluster. (I code recreate this by using openinfoBox but this loses the clustering paging which is not good)

The code used is as follows:

//The attribute (applyhtml) of the marker is set when it is created to true then unset to stop it setting the html twice and to stop it from overwriting the cluster list

function openInfoBoxEvent(eventType, eventTarget, arg1, arg2, arg3)
{
    if(arg1.getAttribute("applyhtml") == "true")
    {
        arg1.setAttribute("applyhtml","");
        arg1.setInfoBoxContent("<strong>SOME HTML</strong>",{});
    }
}

The code does not throw an error but due to the arg1 (parent marker) not being formatted in the same way (in the underlying HTML, ie multiple MMcontent divs with an MMclusterindex for clustered items) the setinfoBoxContent does nothing.

I presume you should be able to set the html of the info box whether it has come from a cluster or not so could someone please advise on where I'm going wrong?

Stav

Start map in OS Mode

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:36:42 Z

Hi, I would like to set a map to start in the Ordnance Survey mode when appropriate, but I can only see options to set the other map modes. Can it be done or is it to be added?
Andrew

Disabling Zoom and Dragging

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:11:41 Z

How do you disable the zooming and dragging features of the MultiMap API?

In other words I want the map to dislplay a point but to be completely static allowing no user interaction.

multimaps.com in flash??

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:07:03 Z

how can I load a map and markers in flash?

Add multiple markers multimaps

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:18:23 Z

mapviewer = MMFactory.createViewer( document.getElementById( 'mapviewer' ) );

mapviewer.goToPosition( new MMLocation (new MMSearch(new MMSearchFilter('cicode','eq', 'E1157' )), 10));
mapviewer.goToPosition( new MMLocation (new MMSearch(new MMSearchFilter('cicode','eq', 'C5532' )), 10));

That's my code but I would like to know how to add a marker without go to the position.

Thanks

Multiple markers, find nearest to any location

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:48:32 Z

Hi

I've been looking to do this on google maps but can't figure out how so thought it might be sensible to try multimap.

I need to have lots of markers of venues across the country and then do a search from a postcode to see which is closest. There are a couple of examples of this where others have done the same sort of thing: http://www.multimap.com/clients/places.cgi?client=ufitest and http://www.ukonlinecentres.com/consumer/index.php. I'm not really fussy about the method, just need something that works.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any help much appreciated :)

Multimap Clustering

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:17:48 Z

The default clustering options for decluttering markers seems to work very well for any zoom level above 7 but not below (bing maps seems to work well on all zoom levels)

The scenario is that we have 400 markers being plotted on a map of the UK and we obviously need to cluster these up at certain zoom levels. The default clustering options seem to work very well for any zoom level above 7 but not below.

There is a caviate to this though when I'm on zoom level 8 (around 50 clusters) and clustering is working well and I zoom out to zoom level 7 then the clustering appears to cluster correctly (more like bing) for a split second (around 20 clusters) and then seems to cluster again and the results of the clustering end up with 4 clustered markers one containing 268 markers another containing 4, another containing 34 and another containing 31.

Have you come across this issue before and how was it handled?

Static Map API daily Usage limit

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:30:09 Z

Does anybody know how many static maps a website can request per day and is the limit calculated at website ip address level or the users IP address?

About overlayStartDrag and overlayEndDrag events

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:09:27 Z

Hi,

Does anyone has an example of how addEventHandler is used.
I'm interested more by the overlayStartDrag and overlayEndDrag events.

Thanks,

Polyllines not displayed on Nokia S60 browser

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:24:57 Z

Hi,

I've noticed on my Nokia 5800 that polylines are not displayed although everything else seems to work ok. Any ideas about this? I _think_ the browser is supposed to support SVG.

The maps themselves look better than I imagined they would on such a small display, partlcularly the os maps.

Note there were no polylines using Google maps either and I didn't even get a map with OS openspace.

Thanks,
Paul

Disable multimap to search for streets?

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:10:42 Z

Hi,

Is there a way to disable the multimap to search for streets? For example I need to search only for city or postal code, but when I search for "Leeds" I get results for streets not for the city.

Thanks.
Anton

Trouble signing up

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:07:41 Z

Hi, i've tried several times to get an API key for multimap but I never receive an email. Have they stopped giving out developer keys?

Access to file http://s0.cdn.multimap.com/APIJS/1.2.186/obfuscated-mmviewer.en-us.js

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:02:31 Z

Ho do I access and modify file http://s0.cdn.multimap.com/APIJS/1.2.186/obfuscated-mmviewer.en-us.js ?

Thanks for your help

Morena

Printing Polylines NOT Working

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:53 Z

Hello
I am resurrecting this topic from the 'old' Mulitimap Open API Forum.

Polylines do not print in Internet Explorer 8 (or any other browser for that matter).

This problem has been around from about the time a change was made to fix IE 8 not displaying maps (which works OK now). But it may not be related to that change.

Please help, this must be a serious problem to many other applications apart from mine.

Blibber

Marker displayed in a different possition after zoom-out

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:35:24 Z

Hello, here's the problem...

I add a marker on the map after the map is loaded but when the user zooms out the marker gets missplaced. Let's say i have a marker on New York City. If you zoom out the marker does not remain in place and if you continue zooming out the marker seems to pointing to another city/state.

Any help appreciated.

Regards.

Trigger function on zoom

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:35:59 Z

Hello, is there a way to trigger a function call after the user clicks on the zoom widget ? (zooming in/out).

Regards,

Error: Can't read (fread) geocode file

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:51:23 Z

Hi,

I was on the old forum talking about a woodland map - shame the posts aren't been copied over to the new forum, I shall have to copy it to my comuter and start a new thread here! Never mind, for now I have a new and more pressing issue:

$xml_file  = "http://developer.multimap.com/API/geocode/1.2/[my_key]?qs=" . str_replace(' ', '',$location );

echo $xml_file;
$fp = fopen($xml_file, "r") or die("Could not open file");
$data = fread($fp, 80000) or die("Could not read file");

This has been working fine until this week some time. Now it fails on the fread() of the xml file. I've echoed out the $xml_file location and that is working fine, and I can view the xml in my web browser, but my PHP script can open the file but can't read it.

Has something changed recently that I'm not aware of, it was working fine up until recently.

Thanks for you help, and I look forward to hearing an answer, so I can fix my map :-)

Jen

Multimap dynamic script load

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:48 Z

Hi,

Does anyone of experience of dynamically loading the Multimap javascript file?

for exmplae using jQuery thus:
$.getScript("http://developer.multimap.com/API/maps/1.2/api_key")
?

When I try to do this, the page goes blank and all previous content is lost.

Many Thanks in advance

Dave Lowe

Building info box with events

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:14:08 Z

Hello,

I have some markers on the map and I'm trying to build their content using the "openInfoBox" event. I'd only like to build the content once, so I thought I'd just create the marker, set a custom attribute (index into a global array). In the event handler I then check to see if the marker has content (hasInfoBoxContent), if not I'll build the content.

The trouble is my event handler is not called if I don't set some content on the marker - then of course hasInfoBoxContent returns true.

I suppose I could hold a flag in the array, but am I missing something on the markers?

Thanks.

Different travel distances to the public site with the API web service

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:35:56 Z

Why are the travel distances different to the public site with the API web service?

What protocols does the API support?

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:22:10 Z

What protocols does the API support?

How can I request all records in the dataset?

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:19:01 Z

How can I request all records in the dataset?