That's exactly what this is for. Thanks for the info. I knew the GDirections would get me part of the way there. I wasn't sure how to get a distance from the start point along the path. Any examples of this sort of thing out there? Thanks.
On Feb 3, 2:08 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > You can call GDirections and tell it not to display the data on the map. > Use {getPolyline:true} to tell it to fetch the data, because it > otherwise doesn't fetch stuff that it doesn't intend to display. > > Listen for the "load" event that tells you that the data has arrived. > > Use .getPolyline() to get the polyline. > > Use EPoly.getPointAtDistance() to calculate the latlng of a point at a > specified distance along that polyline, and plot your marker at that > point. > > This sort of thing has been done for charity walks, where the "progress" > of a large number of small walks by many individuals is charted against > the equivalent of walking from one side of Canada to the other, but > usually they plot either the whole polyline or plot the part of the > polyline that has been walked. > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
