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You can then pass it a polyline and it will return a PNG (as I recall) of the profile. I do this and display the image in a new div on top of the map. Steve On Aug 2, 8:55 am, Gearóid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this has been done numerous times, but I was just wondering if > people could give any suggestions as to how to associate an elevation > profile for a plotted route in a google map. Just something I'm > playing around with to try to do myself (non commercial, I'm just > trying to lean more about mapping). > > I can plot waypoints and have these waypoints link to > sayhttp://www.earthtools.org/timezone/<latitude>/<longitude> to return > the altitude at that point. But I don't know the elevation of points > in between to create an accurate profile. > > Are the any other glaringly obvious ways to do this that I am maybe > missing?! > > Thanks, > > Gearóid --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
