On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:52:42PM -0500, Darren wrote:
> Not even sure how to best ask this question. I want to be able to allow my
> customer to select an area on the map. Could be a simple circle, square or
> even some complex polygon or combination of shapes that overlap. Somehow I
> then need to convert this selection to a data format so that another device
> can look at that data, then compare its own long/lat and figure out if it's
> inside the selected area or not.
 
One option might be to use MapBasic and convert the object into a GML
well-known text (WKT) format. At least that's a standard data structure for
map objects that can be transferred across just about any platform.

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