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 -- 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.
