Updating heatmap data, simple google HeatMap

Question

I've built this android app to collect longitude,latitude, and phone signals for my class project. My objective is to port this info to a simple heatmap webpage. My question is what's the best way to update my heatmap data variable in this example:

https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/layer-heatmap

This variable in particular:

      var taxiData = [
          new google.maps.LatLng(37.782551, -122.445368),
          new google.maps.LatLng(37.782745, -122.444586), ...
          ];

I'm open to all suggestions, I'm pretty much a novice with web development.

Answer 1

Google maps makes this very straightforward. You might notice later on in this example, taxiData is loaded into a specific google array here -

 pointArray = new google.maps.MVCArray(taxiData);

And then this is put into the map as a heatmap here:

heatmap = new google.maps.visualization.HeatmapLayer({
    data: pointArray
});
heatmap.setMap(map);

The MVCArray can be updated, and the map will automatically update. So, if you need to add a new LatLng to your heatmap, simply put:

pointArray.push(new LatLng(<coordinates>));

And the map will update.