On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:37 PM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am doing research involving a project I am involved with that > concerns creating special maps. The nature of this project requires > two things. Firstly, I need to get map images. From my research, > this is obviously easy enough to do with Google Maps API. Secondly, > however, for this project, I will need to have access to the road > information provided on the maps. What I mean is I need to have a way > of getting road name and shapes into some data structure. So, aside > from the graphical map data provided by images, I need to get data > that looks like this: > > Main St. [ [19.292,124.0123] [234.1000,12302] ] > > > Pretend that this is an entry in a data structure. The first thing > you see is the name of the road. The second is a list of points that > describes how the road is placed on the land. > > My question is, is there a way of getting this information from Google > Maps API? >
Almost - you can get some information from GDirections. But beware of copyright. Instead I recommend you head on over to openstreetmap.org, the DO give you the data. (in return for attribution) > > I hope I've been clear enough. Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > > Thanks, > Josh > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
