a caveat...I'm an ecologist, not a programmer, so i'm totally out of my element here....but, we're viewing this more as a tree, not as a water modeling question which, Marcelo, would be more accurate as you say, but beyond the scope of what we want to accomplish.
I'm really just interested to see if it's possible to substitute the storm sewer layer for the roads layer in GM and maybe some general thoughts on how it could be done. On Nov 17, 7:14 am, Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that it should be simpler than roads, but I also believe that > there are parameters that need to be taken into account, such as the > size and position of the inlets at each junction, as well as the > volume of water. > > At any given bifurcation, all else being equal, water would follow the > path through the inlet that it encounters first. > That's until there is more water than the capacity of that inlet, at > which point some of the water will begin to follow the second inlet. > > An interesting exercise in physics perhaps, but not really a maps API > question. > > -- > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > -- > > On Nov 17, 12:32 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > we are working on a public outreach project where instead of > > > visualizing point a to b through the road network, we would map point > > > a to b through a storm sewer network...the "roads" for raindrops. Any > > > thoughts on how to do this if we have a polyline file of the storm > > > sewer network? > > > It's just tree-following techniques, isn't it? Each section of sewer > > presumably has one end with a property of 'inlet' and the other with > > 'outlet' (or 'uphill' and 'downhill' or whatever). At any junction, > > there may be several 'outlets' but only one 'inlet' to be followed > > into the next section and down the tree to the next junction.- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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=.
