"How hard" will always depend on your programming skills. Here's an example to get you started: http://maps.forum.nu/gm_plot.html
You can build lines, rather than closed polygons, and export them to XML or TXT. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Aug 24, 10:36 am, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit new to APIs in general and was doing some reading and > searching and can't seem to find my answer. While I can find tutorials/ > articles to make polygons based off of xml files, I was wondering how > hard it'll be to do the reverse. Have an user create a closed polygon > and once the polygon is closed, create a xml for all the coordinates > along the edge of the polygon (for every 10,100 meters or whatever i > determine). I was mainly reading this site to learn about google's > api:http://econym.org.uk/gmap/epoly.htmand noticed he had the states > outlined using xml file so I wanted to know if I could do the reverse > and how hard it'll be. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
