API to type city name and get a list of possible cities? [closed]

There is the Google Places Autocomplete API, https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/autocomplete and a library for Maps Version 3 at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places#places_autocomplete but I don’t know how well it will cope with different names for the same city — although, having tried it, it does present Munich, Germany for munchen — see how well your use case performs.

Which geopandas datasets (maps) are available?

As written in the geopandas.datasets.get_path(…) documentation, one has to execute >>> geopandas.datasets.available [‘naturalearth_lowres’, ‘naturalearth_cities’, ‘nybb’] Where naturalearth_lowres: contours of countries naturalearth_cities: positions of cities nybb: maybe New York? Other data sources Searching for “germany shapefile” gave an arcgis.com url which used the “Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie” as a source. The result of using vg2500_geo84/vg2500_krs.shp … Read more

How To add custom View in map’s Annotation’s Callout’s

I had same problem and ended up doing following thing: When I receive mapView delegate callback -(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didSelectAnnotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)view (it’s time when I want to show my custom CalloutView) I use view received as parameter *(MKAnnotationView )view (which is a pin view) and simply add my custom view to that pin view using [view … Read more

Positive/Negative Latitude and Longitude values vs. Cardinal Directions [closed]

Sometimes lat/long are expressed in degrees/minutes/seconds, and require a N, S, E, or W direction to make sense. Decimal latitude and longitude is expressed as either a positive or negative number and doesn’t require a cardinal direction. So if you’re using decimal values for these, they aren’t described as “latitude north” or anything like that. … Read more

Golang: convert slices into map

Use a for loop: elements = []string{“abc”, “def”, “fgi”, “adi”} elementMap := make(map[string]string) for i := 0; i < len(elements); i +=2 { elementMap[elements[i]] = elements[i+1] } runnable example on the playground The standard library does not have a function to do this.