UNITY, IOS and GPS Query

Unity Engine
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Hi I’ve been looking at games in Unity but now want to add extra functionality. Essentially could someone let us know the feasibility of these and then we’ll decide whether to learn it or to get someone in to do it for us!! Sorry if we explain this in somewhat of a stoopid way (not our thing normally!)

  1. We want to build a database with coordinates on it, essentially once you get to a point in a game it uses the Users iphone location and searches the database for coordinates closest to users location for a “store”, maybe have a googlemap appear showing location. Can this be done (or something as close as poss) in Unity 3? Anybody point to a starting point for us?

2)This is a flight of fancy but does Unity incorporate the mobile “barcode tag advertising” where you take a picture of it and it sends you to a relevant webpage? I have attached what I’m talking about!

Thanks in advance everyone for any input even it’s not possible!

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  1. Check the location stuff. if its not enough you will need to implement additional functionality through a plugin to include iOS functionality for your usage. For example usage of the iOS MapKit requires that you use a plugin

  2. Unity incorporates nothing like this (nor does any other engine). You will have to write such a thing yourself and use the UIPhotoPicker and alike through a plugin (available on any iOS license) to get the photo

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That’s a great start cheers will check them out!