I have a similar problem with being unable to add a point, after doing a geocode, into a polygon. My initial page shows all the polygons for the Memphis Police Department's different precincts, and I've got a legend and a form with an address field that will call the showaddress () function. My problem is, I can get it to do the geocode and put the point on the map, but the polygons go away. Can someone offer a clue on what I am doing wrong? Here's the page :
https://kiosk.memphispolice.org/precinctmap.htm Thanks, John Harvey [email protected] On Apr 14, 1:36 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Wasn't it bryan who wrote: > > > > >I have a similar question. I have a website with a bunch of geocoded > >locations (mapsforamerica.com). I want to be able to check and see > >whether apointis located in apolygon. Thepolygoncomes from an API > >I'm using that returns a shape like this (below). I looked at Larry's > >linkhttp://econym.org.uk/gmap/epoly.htm. I think the answer is there. > >But I couldn't figure out exactly how to make it work. Any suggestions > >would be greatly appreciated. > > You need to persuade your "API" to separate the creation of thepolygon > from the addOverlay > > var poly = new GPolygon(...); > map.addOverlay(polygon); > > Then you can use poly.Contains(latlng) > > The way your code works at the moment, you don't have a reference to > thepolygon, and there's no way to obtain such a reference from the Maps > API. > > --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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
