On Nov 11, 9:10 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 11, 8:57 am, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That is similar to what I want, but I don't need the directions. These > > segments are simply parts of a single road. I'm trying to highlight > > different blocks of the road within the city. Some roads may be > > highlighted up to 20 blocks long while others may only be a single > > city block. > > > Is there a way I could use GDirections, then extract the polyline > > coordinates that were drawn from GDirections and save that to a > > variable? > > Yes, if you click on the "get polyline xml" button, that page extracts > the coordinates required to recreate the line an formats them as the > xml format I use for displaying polylines.
Here are 2 examples: the I-5 in california as a normal polyline: http://www.geocodezip.com/GenericMapBrowser.asp?filename=I5Polyline.xml the I-5 in california as an encoded polyline: http://www.geocodezip.com/GenericMapBrowser.asp?filename=I5Polyline_encoded.xml -- Larry > > > I could then save that to the database and load that line > > to a map as needed? > > Yup. > > -- Larry > > > > > > > On Nov 11, 7:43 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Nov 11, 5:06 am, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Given 2 intersections, it is possible to have the API draw a > > > > line on or highlight that section of road between those points? > > > > > For example 2nd St and Green Street to 2nd St and Yellow Street. > > > > > I can geocode and plot these 2 just fine and draw a straight > > > > line between them, but will the API attach the points to 2nd > > > > Street and draw the line on the road around the curves of the > > > > road automatically? > > > > Like > > > this?http://www.geocodezip.com/example_geo2.asp?addr1=2nd%20St%20and%20Gre... > > > > > I would also like to highlight multiple unattached segments on a > > > > map at one time > > > > > So, > > > > 2nd St and Green St to 2nd St and Yellow St. > > > > 4th and Blue St to 4th and Red St > > > > etc. > > > > That is a little more technically challenging, GDirections is > > > asynchronous and subject to rate limits and quotas. If all the > > > segments are known ahead of time you could save them, then display > > > them on the map when the map loads without using the GDirections > > > service. > > > > -- Larry- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" 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.
