On Mar 26, 1:19 am, stu <[email protected]> wrote: > > I now need to try and detect when any part of a journey enters / > leaves one of several streets. > > I haven't found any simple way of a line on an overlay interacting > with coords on the map in a way that would help.
Instead of thinking about complex geometry, would it not be good enough to parse and analyze the returned text, looking for the street name in question? -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- > The only thing that > seems potentially useful is using the 'point in a polygon', although > it seems this would be a lot of work (both for me and for the browser) > - draw the streets as narrow polygons; traverse the polyline and at > every 10metres or so, check if the point coord has entered one of the > polygons (streets). > > Does anyone have experience as to other ways to attempt this, or > whether my theoretical solution above is worth pursuing or would be > too intensive for the browser? The current app is running on an > internal server, but not necessary to view for this question, I think. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions > cheers > ...stu -- 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.
