I cannot determine the exact orgin of the data... Google maps show our location correctly, but Foursquare is using a mapping system that yields incorrect results... BAAAAD for business, with no intuitive way to correct the problem!
I don't do much with Foursquare, but I've had this same problem with other mapping services and I know it can be a pain to resolve. Foursquare may only use Twitter for their support, but they are pretty quick about getting back to you. For kicks I summarized the problem you are having in a tweet like this:
If you have my business address correct but it is showing wrong on the map, how do I correct this?
Within a few minutes, they replied:
No worries. Send us the URL to your Foursquare listing and we'll take care of it. Thanks for your cooperation!
Sounds like you just need to tweet them the address and let them know it's wrong and they'll update it for you.
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From what I've read so far, it seems like the only way for me to map custom data points from my own dataset is to host that data with MapQuest. Am I correct in that or have I just not read deep enough?
And if it's possible, does anyone have a link to more information about how to go about it? Their API documentation is subpar.
Thanks :)
Disclaimer: I work at MapQuest
While the MapQuest Data Manager makes it easy to store custom data with MapQuest so that you can query it through the Search API, you don't have to store data with us in order to show custom points on a map.
Are you trying to do something along the lines of storing data in MySQL or PostgreSQL and then use something like PHP to query your own database, loop through the results, and then show the results on a MapQuest map using the JavaScript API? Unfortunately I don't have any easy/quick examples that show how to do that, but it is possible.
The forums on the Developer Network are also good place to look to see if others have had issues similar to the one that you are facing.
Also, let me know exactly which MapQuest APIs/tools you are using and I will do my best to provide more information depending on what you need.
I'm concerned - when I take a picture, I usually (ie, last week) am able to share the image to my app.
Now, however, only Google + contacts appear as share targets. For example, if I turn off sharing to G+, I get no Share options at all, only a greyed-out Share dialog that says "Visit google.com/myglass to add friends"
However, when I go to that address I clearly see my app and a number of contacts (who aren't in G+) who also usually show up.
Has something changed to cause this behavior? For example, is the code listed in the starter-project no longer sufficient to register a share target for photos?
For example, I could imagine that suddenly the acceptTypes[] parameter was now mandatory. But I'd love to hear someone closer to the API weigh in, if possible.
Thanks!
AKA
I solved this by following Alain's comment's advice.
It's very easy to think that the "Contacts" page you see at https://glass.google.com/myglass is all there is.
But if you want your app to receive shared stuff, you have to go here: https://glass.google.com/myglass/share
Hey guys, I have a client who wants their front site to have a tracker on disaster weather like hurricanes when they occur. Essentially they want a way to manage this without getting a developer to do it everytime a new storm develops.
I know there are plenty of ways to get a weather updates on website when you have a set location.. thats easy. Its different when you dont know the storms in advance! Location would be different every time.
Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?
I would probably monitor an RSS feed.
TWC has some nice RSS feeds setup that look like they will facilitate your needs: http://www.weather.com/weather/rss/subscription/
The National Hurricane Center also has RSS feeds: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml
I want to access facebook's database.
I want to have some SQL-like access, let's like this:
"select name from facebook-big-database-table where location='France' and city='Paris' and age
between 30 and 40;"
But, it need not to be SQL, PHP or JAVA would also be nice to use to me.
Does anybody know where to start?
To be honest, I got a little bit lost in all the tutorials Facebook offers.
Is it the so called "Connect" program which offers me what I want or something different?
Facebook does have a bunch of API's, one of which actually looks like SQL. They call it FQL. Check it out here. Maybe it can help you some part of the way at least.
Note that it won't give you raw access to the underlying tables. But still, better than nothing I guess.
Facebook isn't going to let you mine their database in that way. Not possible.
You wont be able to access facebook's database. The most you'd be able to do is to get information of users who previously have consented your application to access their data.
Therefore answering your question, what you want can't be done, period.
Does anybody know if there is a way to understand what users are doing on my web page? I can see overall stats with Google Analytics but I can't really understand what users are looking at, if they are reading my content, etc.
Does anybody know if there is a free or paid service that I could use?
Dani
You could try using one of the analytics things that does heatmaps.
These give a visual representation of where people are clicking on the site, and I think some may let you track where the cursor is as well.
This is about as close as you can get to what you want - there's no way to track what someone's eyes are looking at,
Wikipedia claims that google analytics can do this. I've not seen it in analytics, but it may well be hiding there somewhere. I have used clicktale a bit before though:
http://www.clicktale.com/
Try Mouseflow. You can even record your visitors and watch the videos. Haven't tried it but looks promising.
The Site Overlay report in Google Analytics is probably what Wikipedia is referring to. However, it doesn't work most of the time (it's a "piece of crap" in Google's own words).
ClickTale is okay. I recommend CrazyEgg: http://crazyegg.com/