RadMap Geo Fence Help

[Yaghiyah]

I'm busy evaluating the RadMap and controls which we will buy soon, at the moment I need help, can someone please help me get started with following.

I need to set-up a geo fence with one or many map markers that will alert, assert when the fence boundaries are crossed OR entered, so far I only am able to create shapes with markers and am unsure of how to progress with the fence boundary detection.   

Thanks in advance.

[Andrey]

Hello Yaghiyah,

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand your question.
Can you supply some additional details on the issue which you are facing with the control, or the functionality which you are trying to achieve?

Regards,
Andrey Murzov
Telerik

 
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[Yaghiyah]

Its been a few days its been very silent on the maps forums, I am still stuck and made "some" progress.. 

Ive looked at various algorithms and found this its the equation for testing if a point is inside a circle, firstly here is the algorithm..   

public static bool IsPointInCircle(Point centre, double radius, Point toTest)
    {
        // Is the point inside the circle? Sum the squares of the x-difference and
        // y-difference from the centre, square-root it, and compare with the radius.
        // (This is Pythagoras' theorem.)
        double dX = Math.Abs( toTest.X - centre.X);
        double dY = Math.Abs (toTest.Y - centre.Y);
        double sumOfSquares = dX * dX + dY * dY;
        double distance = Math.Sqrt(sumOfSquares);
        return (radius >= distance);
    }

Next I build the circle using like this.. 

        private InformationLayer _currentLayer;
        private MapPath _circleMapPath;


void DrawCircle()
{
            // Create a new MapPath circle.
            _circleMapPath = new MapPath
                             {
                                 Fill = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.GreenYellow),
                                 Stroke = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red),
                                 StrokeThickness = 2,
                                 Opacity = 0.4
                             };

            // Create a Location Rectangle based on two location points.
            _locationRect = new LocationRect(_originalLocation, _currentLocation) { MapControl = _map };

            // Determine the Radius. XY for a Circle.
            double radius = MapGeometryHelper.MapDistance(_originalLocation , _currentLocation, _map);

            _circleMapPath.Data = new MapEllipseGeometry
                                  {
                                      Center = _originalLocation,
                                      RadiusX = radius,
                                      RadiusY = radius
                                  };


            _currentLayer.Items.Add(_circleMapPath);              //  Update with new path geometery.
            _map.Items.Add(_currentLayer);                        //  Update map with new layer with updated geometry.
           DrawCenterDotWithRadius();

}

  private void DrawCenterDotWithRadius()
        {
            if (_pointMapPath != null)
                _currentLayer.Items.Remove(_pointMapPath);

            if (_line != null)
                _currentLayer.Items.Remove(_line);

            _pointMapPath = new MapPath
                            {
                                Stroke = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Blue),
                                StrokeThickness = 1,
                                Data = new MapEllipseGeometry
                                       {
                                           Center = _originalLocation,
                                           RadiusX = 0.1,
                                           RadiusY = 0.1
                                       },
                            };

            _currentLayer.Items.Add(_pointMapPath);*/
            _line = new MapLine
                    {
                        Point1 = _originalLocation,
                        Point2 = _currentLocation,
                        Fill = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red),
                        Stroke = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red),
                        StrokeThickness = 2
                    };
            _currentLayer.Items.Add(_line);
        }

Yet, no luck. when testing for a point inside a circle ..I will appreciate if someone / anyone can set me on the right path.  

[Andrey]

Hi Yaghiyah,

It is quite complex mathematical task to detect whether the given location is inside the arbitrary map region. The RadMap control doesn't provide functionality which can be used to solve this task for the map shapes which aren't visible in viewport. But if a map shape object is visible over the map, then you can use following method to detect whether specified location is inside the shape:

private bool IsLocationInShape(MapShape shapeToTest, Location location)
{
    bool isInShape = false;

    IEnumerable<object> list = this.InformationLayer.GetItemsInLocation(location);
    foreach (object item in list)
    {
        MapShape shape = item as MapShape;
        if (shape != null && shape == shapeToTest)
        {
            isInShape = true;
            break;
        }
    }

    return isInShape;
}

Regards,

Andrey Murzov

Telerik

 

 

[Yaghiyah]

Hi Andrey 

I think I might have solved problem for circular geometric shapes.
See here.  http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/198764/how-to-know-if-a-point-is-inside-a-circle
 
I've adapted the concept  and came up with this.

     /// <summary>
        /// Tests if a marker point location is "Within" or "Outside" a circular Geo-Fence.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="centre">The centre of the geo-fence circle presented as a location object, in Latitude and Longitude form.</param>
        /// <param name="radius">The radius of the geo-fence circle in Km. 0.05 km = 50 meters, 50 meters is the maximum zoom level. </param>
        /// <param name="marker">The map marker in question to test. </param>
        /// <param name="map">The radmap map object.</param>
        /// <param name="isPointInCircleTest">If true will perform a test inside circle, else test for marker point outside.</param>
        /// <param name="boundaryDetect">True to test if maker point is on the geo-fence boundary, else don't include the geo-fence boundary in boundary scan.</param>
        /// <returns>True if marker is inside geo-fence else marker is </returns>
        public static bool CircleFenceTest(Location centre, double radius, Location marker, RadMap map, bool isPointInCircleTest, bool boundaryDetect)
        {
     
            double distance = MapGeometryHelper.MapDistance(centre, new Location(marker.Latitude, marker.Longitude), map)
                                               .MapRound()
                                               .KmToMeters();

            double r = radius.KmToMeters()
                             .MapRound();

            if (isPointInCircleTest)
            {
                if (boundaryDetect)
                    return (distance <= r);
                return (distance < r);
            }

            if (boundaryDetect)
                return (distance >= r);
            return (distance > r);
        }