Show HN: Boundr – tool to draw and extract polygon boundaries from Google Maps

[tixocloud]

https://getinsightico.com/labs/boundr/

[tedmiston]

An interesting tool that I'm not totally sure of the use case.

Be careful with drawing multiple polygons -- each one stays on the map, but the kml export only includes the last one you drew.

[tixocloud → tedmiston]

Thanks. I personally used this to draw boundaries from images.

If anyone's interested, I can add an image overlay support to make tracing easier.

[kinduff → tixocloud]

That sounds good, I can help out if you go opensource.

[tixocloud → kinduff]

Sure. Any recommendations on an open source license?

[kinduff → tixocloud]

MIT should be good for this project, also Creative Commons can cover your needs. Github should be good to host it, so you can manage your repo with issues and pull requests.

[sgberlin → tedmiston]

You can check if a pair of coordinates is inside a certain individual area.

[ericathegreat]

Nice, I'd use it. Having the ability to search by address would save a lot of zooming though. Is this just a straight overlay on the existing Google Map widget (which would make customizing easy)?

[tixocloud → ericathegreat]

Search by address is coming on its way. Yes, it is a straight overlay on the existing Google Map. Would be easy to switch out the maps as well.