Thanks for the help ross, i voted for getNearestPanorma Thanks. Vyra
On Aug 8, 3:18 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > here is the link -http://moneyma.com/test.html, in this first im > > passing the points (40.440743,-79.799193) which snaps to the nearest > > street whose lat lng is (44.44079,-79.79924000000001), but that street > > also doesnt have the street view. My aim is to find the nearest street > > view. > > I can't think of a way to do it without using brute force, testing > points spiralling out from your start. > It would help enormously if there were some limit to your search, > rather than the open-ended 'nearest'. In some places, the nearest > Panorama may be on another continent. Do you really want that? Do > you still really want the nearest if it is 5km away? 1km? > > I think this event could be exploited to see if there is any > streetview data at a coarse level - > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GStreet... > Maybe you could place a GStreetviewOverlay on a dummy invisible second > map, zoomed tightly in on your location. Step the zoom out, when the > event fires you know some Streetview data has come into the bounds of > the map. Check the distance ( it'll be between the distance of the > previous bounds and the current one) to see if it falls in your > "sensible" range. If it does, do the brute force thing - but you can > start working out from that distance of the previous bounds, since you > know there's nothing closer. > > There may well be a more cunning approach! > > It would be useful if getNearestPanoramaLatLng() offered some option > about the search distance, but it doesn't. It's been mentioned > before, but no-one has yet raised an enhancement request for it that I > can see. > But - there is such a request for getNearestPanorama(), which is so > close to the same you might like to add your 'star' (vote) > > http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1182&q=get... > > cheers, Ross K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
