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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