Here's another example (V3): http://maps.forum.nu/v3/gm_directions.html
Get directions and then move the mouse over the elevation chart. This is using an array, (internal to the chart), to hold the points of the polyline. You could do something similar by finding the nearest point in the MVCArray returned by Polyline.getPath() -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Dec 28, 9:35 am, Marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 28, 3:22 am, massimo bastianon <bastian...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to get index of a point inside a polyline? > > A polyline, (for example of a single straight line), has only two > points in its path array, (the two end points). Everything in between > is calculated, and there is an infinite number of points between the > mouse and the line and between the two end points. You'd have to be > very lucky to hit exactly the lat/lon of an end point. > What you might need to do is to calculate the distance to the nearest > point with a threshold, like this V2 > example:http://maps.forum.nu/gm_mouse_dist_to_line.html > > -- > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > -- > > > > > > > > > a sample here:http://www.pedemontanadelgrappa.it/fu.html > > Move the mouse over the polyline. Alert is on line 130. -- 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 google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
