On Aug 13, 8:08 am, Kocki <[email protected]> wrote: > > How to make route over the seas?
With some difficulty, I think. The API doesn't do this: it's intended to produce driving/walking directions. Occasionally those directions include sea-tunnels or ferries, but sea voyages you can't drive on to aren't included. To find sea routes is not trivial. You'll need coastal outlines for a start, and then calculate a suitable routing algorithm. To go from London to Hamburg (for example) is fairly straightforward; but from Buenos Aires to Santiago has at least three possibilities -- north through the Panama Canal, south around Cape Horn, or east past the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. Finding the shortest route of the three possibilities is easy; working out the possibilities is not. I believe I've seen an example, but (a) I can't find it even using Google Search rather than the group search; (b) I think they used their own routing engine. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
