On Dec 27, 10:39 pm, Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Lary. > > I downloaded the tool and trying to open .shp files, its giving error > and abort the app. > > Is there any other way to achieve displaying demographics without > using KML files ?
There are lots of ways. But you have to get the coordinates to create the polygons somehow. Maybe someone else has created kml you can use: http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=South%20Africa%20states%20KML -- Larry > > Rgds > Mohan > > On Dec 28, 9:58 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Dec 27, 11:39 pm, Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Lary, I want guidelines on how can I achieve the task stated in my > > > question with Google maps. > > > Google Maps? Or using the Google Maps API v3? > > > > So if you can tell me follow these steps to > > > display demographics, lets say i want to show the readership details > > > of news paper , I have data for each state, how can I display these on > > > google maps? I want to color the states polygon but I don't have > > > latitude and longitudes of polygon. > > > To create the states polygon you need to: > > 1. download the appropriate shapefile from:http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata > > 2. convert the shapefile to kml by using a conversion program. I use > > software from here:http://fwtools.maptools.org/ > > (it is free, you should be able to download it, install it on your > > computer and run it) > > > An alternative would be to search the web to see if someone has > > already created kml you can use. > > > -- Larry > > > > -Mohan > > > > On Dec 28, 9:12 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Dec 27, 11:04 pm, Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Lary. > > > > > > I want to show the demographics by color coding the polygons, which > > > > > are states of the South Africa. > > > > > > When browsing , i am not able to found any code sample for above > > > > > thing. Can you please help me ? > > > > > What kind of code samples do you need? > > > > 1. displaying kml on a map using the API? - see the documentation > > > > 2. color coding polygons in kml? - not a google maps API issue, is a > > > > KML issue, see the KML > > > > reference:http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html > > > > 3. translating shapefiles to kml? - also not a google maps API > > > > issue:http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=translate%20shapef... > > > > I use software from here:http://fwtools.maptools.org/ > > > > > -- Larry > > > > > > Rgds > > > > > Mohan > > > > > > On Dec 27, 8:37 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 27, 1:56 am, Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am new to Google MAPS. I need a help. > > > > > > > > As a part of my project, I need to highlight the states/Provence > > > > > > > of > > > > > > > South Africa using google map according to demographics. > > > > > > > > But I am not sure how can I get the states boundaries ? I know > > > > > > > each > > > > > > > state is polygon, but how can I get lat/lang values for each > > > > > > > state ? > > > > > > > Have you tried:http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata > > > > > > > > Please suggest how can I achieve this ? > > > > > > > Download the shapefiles, convert them to kml, display the kml using > > > > > > KmlLayer, not sure how you want to display the demographics (inside > > > > > > the infowindow, color coding the polygons...) > > > > > > > -- Larry > > > > > > > > will appreciate any help on this. > > > > > > > > Rgds > > > > > > > Mohan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
