On Dec 4, 10:30 am, Martijn van der Plaat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi experts,
>
> I try to directly check in a map of a certain point is in a polygon.
> see:http://profec.nl/profec/gmaps/index1.php
>
> first lookup my code.
>
> The problem is that, as you can see in the first popup, javascript
> thinks polys.length() is 0, but in reality polys.length() is 2, as you
> can see in the second popup. What i think is that the code goes faster
> then xml can load. Strange enough the script works in IE.
> Maybe the problem is solved when i pre-load the polygons before i do a
> poly.length() function? Please look in my code to better understand my
> problem.
> My intention is an applicatie with:
>
> 1. longitude+latitude as input from a GPS device
> 2. the input is checked against several polygons on a map
> 3. the output is a unique id that belongs to the found polygon.
> 4. I use the id in my further program because the id is identical to
> an id in a database
>
> so i only use the whole map as a check function to know in which
> polygon my GPS exists.
>
> Maybe another solution is not using the google map at all, and just
> lookup if my current gps coordinate is in a specific list of polygons,
> using point-in-polygon algoritmehttp://alienryderflex.com/polygon/
> But i thought because the google map can tell me directly in which
> polygon the point is i dont have to walk through the whole list of
> existing polygons, and thereby the google map solution is faster. But
> at the moment i realy doubt this!
>

Part 2 Asynchronous I/O
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/async.htm


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