Hi,
I am thinking about implementing a realtime navigation in JMIX.
Something like the navigation in Google or Apple maps.
Tracing a route in the maps addon is fine.
But that is not a navigation.
From my view it might be possible if I create an Android or IOS app, using the Google directions API or similar.
But I cannot imagine that such kind of navigation can be done in a browser app.
If you have any information or idea where to look,
pls tell me.
KR
Roland
Do you want a fleet tracking or navigation?
Navigation, I don’t think it can be done reasonably well.
I can imagine a web based system that is being refreshed often to update the position, that is the map is centered constantly on the latest position, and you keep that position reasonably average because GPS positional data readings can be wild, and maybe have loaded 365 arrow icons each pointing to the heading so the most accurate is displayed … I don’t see how you can rotate the map if you are in “heading up” mode.
And even if you can rotate, it would happen on the server side, and there would be latency and even loss of mobile signal on the road.
I think that the app needs to be executed locally, fetch the map and the route data to the local storage, so it can be run without the problems I mentioned. WASM comes to mind, or PWA, which is then executed locally.
Kind regards,
Mladen