so yeah just to note, i am a complete beginner at mit app inventor and like said in the title, i need help coding a map of my school campus where you can navigate through the school with gps for a school project, i was wondering if you guys can check this code and get some feedback on what to add or what to fix
ABG
February 24, 2025, 4:31am
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You might start by reading the help (?) for the location sensor.
Also see
TIMAI2
February 24, 2025, 11:36am
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This topic may be of help ?
The AndroidWheresMyCar_MIT.aia does not Work to Identify Lat/Long for Rooms. What happens with houses is that the Lat/Long is overwritten by the house address. I am trying to use the app to mark a specific room in the house. My global is to adjust the app to be able to use it to remember a room in a house or a hotel room location. However, the Lat/Long is overwritten by the house address. Can you help? That app is at the website Android, Where's My Car? for App Inventor 2 | Explore MIT App Inven…
SteveJG
February 24, 2025, 2:02pm
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A note of caution, your gps may not work well with a building without many windows or because the gps hardware might not be able to get a good signal. Before you design the Project, try you gps inside the building as a test.
Here are several community artices that discuss a similar topic (they may hep you decide what to do):
geojson.io web site tool to create a detailed FeatureCollection map overlay.
This is a two part tutorial. Part I explains how to use an online tool to create an overlay. Part II explains how to load the overlay into an app that contains a Map component.
Requirements for Part I
Either a WIFI or network connection to access the Internet to display the map.
a created FeatureCollection map overlay
no extensions re…
Part II Custom Map Overlay
.. Show the user on the Map and a Custom Map Overlay. Add map 'control' information to the Display.
How to Build this App
[campusExplore]
Part I to this tutorial explained how to make the Custom Map Overlay. This part explains ways to animate and do interesting things with the overlay using the Maps control's object Properties.
This is the map overlay playground experiments Designer.
[campusDetailDesigner]
The tutorial example app works in Android 4.2 - 8.1. …
I am trying to create a navigation application for campus and l am facing challenges in setting the end marker to read the data from a geojson file as the destination location when a user has searched the place they are going to
Good luck with your Project.
