The Customer sells ice cream at various points in the city like Street Corner 1, Street Corner 2 and Street Corner 3. All of the cart technicians have iphones and already use apps like Foursquare and Facebook so they are familiar with ‘checking in’ to locations.
It would be great if I could display or show on a Google Map each cart location that would pinpoint each ice cream cart with a little pin; this way a customer looking for ice cream could tell which cart they are closest to in their car or even walking down the street. When each pin is clicked on, then the Google address would be returned to the web viewer.
Each time a new cart is dispatched, the cart technician would simply fire up his iphone and check in to his location and the map is updated on the site. IF that particular location didn’t exist and needed to be added as a brand new location, he could add it via his phone so that the location would then be added to and show up on the map on the website.
How would I go about creating this? I’m using EE2 but have not chosen any modules or plugins for this yet. I’m still on the fence about how this could be done.
Anyone have an idea on the best way to build something like this?
Thanks!