What geographic area are you studying? For the United States, there is public-domain data available in GIS formats, usually shapefiles. (The public domain TIGER database, which has some warts, is what underlies the OpenStreetMaps.org stuff. You can download TIGER shapefiles directly from the Census web site.) And so some localities publish GIS data files that are much more up-to-date and accurate than TIGER. (I know my city does.)
The easiest way to access that data would be within a GIS application. (I use Manifold, which is lower-priced that most.) Alternately, you could try a program like shpe2kml http://www.zonums.com/shp2kml.html That would convert the shapefiles to KML files, which you can readily parse. On Oct 17, 11:37 am, 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? > > I hope I've been clear enough. Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Josh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
