On Apr 23, 9:00 am, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless either or BOTH endpoints are on the wrong side of the road. I
> can't win. Thanks for your help.

But you could potentially use William's test to see if those 2 points
are on the correct side of the road or not.

Or maybe the direction of travel (which I think I remember you saying
you had) and a the direction of the first segment of the directions
polyline.

  -- Larry

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> On Apr 23, 11:11 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > On Apr 23, 7:54 am, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Will the created polyline stay on the roads, or be a straight line
> > > between points? Also as part of my data set I have the direction of
> > > travel as a float from 0-360, can that be of use?
>
> > It will be a straight line between the points.
>
> > Probably your best option is to do end to end directions, then use the
> > resulting polyline as opposed to trying to do directions between the
> > individual points.
>
> >   -- Larry
>
> > > On Apr 23, 10:36 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > On Apr 23, 7:15 am, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > I think our modems are 'supposed' to be accurate to 5 meters. He must
> > > > > have been in the passing lane when that particular reading was taken.
>
> > > > > Is there a way to generate a polyline other than using a GDirections
> > > > > object?
>
> > > > If you have the points you can create a polyline by passing it an
> > > > array of 
> > > > GLatLngs:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GPolyli...
>
> > > >   -- Larry
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> > > > > On Apr 23, 10:02 am, William <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > > On Apr 23, 9:13 pm, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > > > The waypoints are generated by a gps modem in a vehicle. I have 
> > > > > > > no way
> > > > > > > of changing or correcting them.
>
> > > > > > It's not very practical but it's possible to use Google Maps API to
> > > > > > calculate adjustments so the points are on the correct side of the
> > > > > > divided highway.
>
> > > > > > The data has precision of 4 decimal places (about 10 metres), so its
> > > > > > worth moving each point 0.00005 degrees to the North, South, East 
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > West, to see if that reduces the distance to the next waypoint.
>
> > > > > > The following map shows how it might work, illustrating the points
> > > > > > which are the wrong side of the freeway:
>
> > > > > >http://www.william-map.com/20100423/1/map.htm
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