Using Geospatial API provides an immersive Augmented Reality Map to guide users to the closest location. New feature: ability to show generic points of interest such as campus building, parking lots or other landmarks.
Some more details about the background: https://csaba.page/blog/geospatial-api-with-terrain-anchors-for-augmented-reality-maps.html More development progression: https://devpost.com/software/recycling-trashcan-ar-map#updates
If you wouldn't want the burden to release your own augmented reality map app, then you can simply add your set of locations by submitting a pull request against the companion website. The mobile app will refresh its database from the website's served data. You need to modify only one file: the areas.yml the similar manner as the park_ridge area is defined.
- Decide a unique area name (consists of alphanumeric characters and underscore) for your locations.
- Mark it as
kind: extra. - Add the series of locations: by specifying title, latitude, longitude, marker type (currently it can be
trashcanandpoi), and an optional URL for each. The order doesn't matter in the yaml. The optional URL is a link which will be opened if the user clicks on the marker and then clicks on the Info Window again in the app.
I submitted the app together with the companion website to a Google Maps Platform Hackathon: https://devpost.com/software/recycling-trashcan-ar-map