Thanks Andrew & Mike for passing valuable information. This will
definitely help me to solve my problem. I will look into it.

Thanks
Sunil

On Dec 2, 10:28 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> GDirections will snap to the nearest point on a drivable road as long as
> that road point is within 5 kilometres. Since pedestrian zones are
> typically less than 5km across, expect GDirections to succeed.
>
> See:  http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_snap.htm
>
> So you'll always have to check the distance from your point to the point
> returned by GDirections, and have a cutoff where you choose to consider
> the point not accessible by car.
>
> Even then it's not foolproof. On that example map, the roads through the
> caravan park just to the east of the smaller roundabout are actually
> accessible by car, but they're not included in the GDirections database.
> Similarly, you can get false results if the point is only a few metres
> from a road but there's some sort of impenetrable barrier in the way.
>
> --
> Mike Williamshttp://econym.org.uk/gmap

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