On Dec 18, 5:53 am, Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to highlight different bits of road on my map in different > colours. > > Does google maps 'know' where specific roads are and is this info > accessibile to developers?
The GDirections engine can return polylines along roads. > > Otherwise one would need the lats/longs for zillions of points along > the road, say every 10 yards and do a manual dot-to-dot. Which would > be a real pain. > > What do you think? It seems that the info is available as it can work > out routes between A and B which use the roads. > > Thoughts are hugely appreciated! I did this (Interstate 5 through California): http://www.geocodezip.com/GenericMapBrowser.asp?filename=I5Polyline.xml http://www.geocodezip.com/GenericMapBrowser.asp?filename=I5Polyline_encoded.xml By capturing the results of GDirections. -- Larry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
