On Sep 24, 11:02 pm, robbie McDiarmid <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a stupid question. I am totally new to google maps
> and I am trying to find a technology that will help solve my problem.
>
> Can google maps produce the terrain type at a given lat and long? Eg.
> could it tell me weather a certain region is a forest, city, desert
> etc.

The Google Maps API does not do that.

> If it isn't possible to do this with google maps does anyone know
> of a free database out there that might contain this information.

Can't answer that one, but Google has a search engine too.

  -- Larry

>
> thanks
>
> Rob
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