COALA (Context-Aware Location Assessment) is a one-stop-shop for any kind of real-world-data (geolocation, time, weather, moon phases, etc. up to specialized golf sports data). Use COALA to create real-world AR games, meaningful AR applications or smarter apps.

Use the COALA package to create in-app maps with streets, buildings, rivers, etc. Get building information, information about restaurants & supermarkets. Create your own static or dynamic POIs, pitch and match location, weather, moon phases and more. Define terrains - on a grid basis. Access real-world weather conditions and visualize them with particle effects. This plugin also provides for GPS mapping and other tools. Create a real-world product with all the tech in place and responsible use of data rates.

Please note: This package is free, but requires a COALA account. After registration and creation of a project, you will be provided with an API key. Implementing that in your project allows you to draw real-world data. Once your project exceeds a certain request threshold, COALA will charge a fee per request.

Preparations

Before you can start using COALA in your project, there are a couple of steps you have to do.

Known problems:

Some versions of Unity's Web Requests (in 2019 everything below 2019.4.21) have a problem with iOS 14.2+. To fix this, it is necessary to change something in the UnityWebRequest.mm. (you can do that in Xcode before building) The delegateQueue should be nil.

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Purpose and examples for systems provided with this package

Fundamentals

• Verify project settings with backend visualization tool
• COALA area object
• Map render configuration assets

Basics

• Terrain generation
• Buildings
• Streets and their appearance
• Water shapes
• Point Of Interests
• Tourism Point Of Interests

Advanced

• Improve your maps with decorations
• See other users on your map
• Zones
• Tag Suggestions
• Custom Points of Interest
• Visualizing crime data

Example maps

• PaperMap example