Google Maps on PC with traffic circuit

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Google Maps on PC with traffic circuit

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Daniel_KDF	Daniel_KDF posted 4/13/2019 10:12:30 AM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 57, Visits: 396	I really like Skydemon drawing the traffic circuit of an airfield on the map. For non-GPS VFR flying however, I find it important to view the traffic circuit in reference to a satellite/air photography image during flight preparation. On my iPad, when I press "View on map" I will get a Google Maps window with the circuit diagram vector lines on top of it. This is just great! However, as I do most of my preparation on PC, I am missing this feature there. On the PC, you only create a link with the airfield location and open a browser window. The vector information of the circuit diagram is missing unfortunately. Do you think you could add this feature to the PC version? I believe Google maps offers the technology to add vector information also on the PC, however the solution might be different to the app.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 4/15/2019 2:03:23 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	At present we cannot easily add this feature to our PC software because there isn't a standard mapping API on PCs which allows us to add the extra vector data.
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Markuus	M Markuus posted 4/15/2019 3:27:06 PM Post Details Share Post
M Group: Forum Members Posts: 1, Visits: 0	Hi, please apologize the dumb question, but doesn‘t Skydemon use KML files to display traffic patterns? That should work the same on a PC.
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Daniel_KDF	Daniel_KDF posted 4/16/2019 5:54:03 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 57, Visits: 396	Thank you for your reply, Tim. I am not a developer, so all I did is some Google search: Drawing in Google Maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays KML in Google Maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/kml (this API will be discontinued, however) Also, you could make an option to call Google Earth with the traffic circuit in an KML.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 4/24/2019 10:17:46 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	No, we don't use KML to display the traffic circuits in any of our products. Daniel, I understand how at first glance those might look like solutions. However SkyDemon PC is desktop software and those are web APIs. While we like Google Earth as a viewer for work done by the user in SkyDemon (viewing planned routes or flown track logs) we cannot integrate it sufficiently tightly to make it a good user experience for viewing our airfield mapping data.
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