Thanks John. This is for a community project where people are volunteering based on specific streets. I just thought it would be neat to be able to visually see the coverage of a particular area. It looks like I'll have to require them to enter stop and start cross streets or addresses in order to draw the polyline. That or use James's suggestion of manually gathering the coordinates, naturally this will depend on the volume of points there are to map.
Thanks all! On Jan 26, 4:14 pm, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]" <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a way to get the entire polyline for a street directly out of > the API, but you'd need the start and end points, do directions from > those coordinates and most likely you'd end up with the street as a > line. The issue with this is what can you do with the data? The answer > is show a line on the map. You can't store that data for use with > another application, even if it's something like finding POI's along > the street. That would be against the terms. > > There are alternatives. You could use the Tiger database and create a > road table, a major undertaking to say the least, or you could find > another source for doing this. Right now, as far as I know, there are > no databases available of complete roads, at least not for free. > > -John Coryat > > http://maps.huge.info > > http://www.usnaviguide.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
