I presented at the HighEdWeb conference in 2010 on campus maps and specifically address your issues. Here's the presentation: http://blogs.missouristate.edu/web/2010/10/12/maps-heweb10/
Chad Killingsworth On Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:24:21 AM UTC-5, Chris Broadfoot (Google Employee) wrote: > > Hi Megan, > > See my Google I/O talk from last year for some tips: > http://youtu.be/ATfdi-oYWzw > > Chris > > -- > G+: http://chrisbroadfoot.id.au/+ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/broady > > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:43 AM, regularmegs wrote: > >> Does anyone have any information on the best way to create a university >> map? I work for a university in the Midwest and we are trying to update our >> campus map from a static PDF to a more interactive Google map. Many of our >> buildings are missing from Google Maps and my efforts with Google Map Maker >> have been fruitless. I made some edits that sat there for two months before >> I got an email saying that they were approved, but they never showed up on >> the map. I've looked into the Base Map Partner Program, but we don't have >> the correct file formats that Google requires and I do not know how to >> obtain them. If anyone knows how to get those correct formats, I would very >> much appreciate some help. >> >> I just want to create a simple map with all of our buildings on it and >> access to layers with parking and dining information. KML polygons for our >> buildings do not seem to be the best option since that much KML loads >> slowly for our large campus. Image overlays also load slowly. Ideally, I'd >> like to build something like this: http://www.washington.edu/maps/ but I >> do not know how they made the image tiles. If anyone can give me some >> pointers on this project, I would really appreciate it. I've been >> researching for about a month and I am at my wits' end. I've never worked >> with interactive maps before and have limited experience with Javascript, >> so any help would be much appreciated. Also, if anyone knows who to contact >> at Google about a project like this, please let me know. Thanks for your >> help. >> >> Megan >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/MrrvQV_FcmAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
