Display your own Data

Introduction

Mixare as a standalone application is bound to geonames.org, more specifically to the data taken from wikipedia. When you start the application a call is made to http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyWikipediaJSON (please see here for details).

How to launch mixare with your data source

In order to show your own data through Mixare you may invoke it like this: Intent i = new Intent(); i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); i.setDataAndType(Uri.parse("http://your_server/JSONEndpoint"), "application/mixare-json"); startActivity(i); Mixare will be invoked by the android system for every call you make to the myme type application/mixare-json

It means you can even launch mixare from the browser ;)

How your data should be encoded

At the moment mixare supports two types of JSON encoding, the first being the one of geonames.org discussed earlier.

The second format is documented below: { "status": "OK", "num_results": 3, "results": [ { "id": "2827", "lat": "46.43893", "lng": "11.21706", "elevation": "1737", "title": "Penegal", "distance": "9.756", "has_detail_page": "1", "webpage": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suedtirolerland.it%2Fapi%2Fmap%2FgetMarkerTplM%2F%3Fmarker_id%3D2827%26project_id%3D15%26lang_id%3D9" }, { "id": "2821", "lat": "46.49396", "lng": "11.2088", "elevation": "1865", "title": "Gantkofel", "distance": "9.771", "has_detail_page": "0", "webpage": "" }, { "id": "2829", "lat": "46.3591", "lng": "11.1921", "elevation": "2116", "title": "Roen", "distance": "17.545", "has_detail_page": "1", "webpage": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suedtirolerland.it%2Fapi%2Fmap%2FgetMarkerTplM%2F%3Fmarker_id%3D2829%26project_id%3D15%26lang_id%3D9" } ] } * There must be an array whos name is "results" at the first level of the JSON object. * Each element of the array must contain at least lat (latitude), lng (longitude), elevation (could be "0"), title (the string that will be shown below the Marker). * Each element of the array could contain webpage (a link to the what is shown when the user clicks on the marker) and if it does it must contain has_detail_page with a value of 1). NB: A value of 0 for has_detail_page means that mixare will not consider clicks on that marker. * Each element of the array could contain distance.