max-winderbaum/Google-Maps-Project

Google Maps Destination Picker

#Google Maps Project

##Outline This is a web-app that allows a user to search for, select, and display a route from the user's current location to the selected destination.

##TODO

• Get the user's current location and show it on the map
  • Use navigator.geolocation
  • Center map on retrieved latlng at some default zoom level (13-15 are pretty good defaults)
  • Show custom user icon
  • Show other information about geolocation result (accuracy, elevation, heading, etc.)
  • Update user's location as they move around
• Provide a button/panel that allows the user to type in a destination
• Perform a search for nearby POIs that match the entered destination input
  • Use the current map's center/viewport bounds + zoom as params for the search
• Results of the search should appear in a list in some manner for interaction (maps icons, sidebar, pop-up, etc.)
  • Show additional info about each search result (distance away, provided images/icons, search result type, etc.)
  • Cool list container / UI layout
• Each entry should be selectable
• Show/highlight an entry on the map if it is selected
  • center/zoom the map based on user's and destination location
  • make cool animation when transitioning
• Retrieve/plot a route from the user's current location to the destination
  • Show additional info about destination via pop-up balloon over destination marker
  • Use custom icon for destination marker
• Accomodate viewport sizes ranging between phone and desktop

##Getting Started First make sure you have node.js installed... without that nothing works! You can either install it with your favorite package manager or with the installer found on nodejs.org.

Once you have node set up, you'll need to install app-specific packages to facilitate all of the automated building for the Challenge.

Here are the steps:

1. cd into the project's root directory (i.e. Google-Maps-Project/)
2. This project relies on grunt-cli, and bower to do all the heavy lifting for you, so: npm install -g grunt-cli bower
3. Now, install all of the base project dependencies: npm install && bower install

##Running a Development Server

Simply run grunt serve and you will start a local development server and open Chrome. Watch tasks will be running, and your browser will be automatically refreshed whenever a file in the repo changes.

If you would like to have your server be accessible to other devices on your local machine use the option --hostname=0.0.0.0

If you don't like your browser being opened for use a --no-open flag to disable the feature