Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread bratliff
On Sep 5, 4:18 pm, KirAsh4 wrote: > For this test, yes I did. As I was adding the waypoints in the > encoder, before hitting 'add point', I would copy and paste the > values. Eventually (and now that I know what my mistake was), I'll > continue to use the encoder. In fact, I did try to use tha

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread KirAsh4
On Sep 5, 10:04 am, bratliff wrote: > > In many cases, encoding is a waste of time.  If standard polys work > correctly, why bother to encode ? To reduce the amount of data send to the client. And while this is literally "Day 2" of this project, I'm also looking at the possibility of using a cu

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread Andrew Leach
On Sep 5, 5:04 pm, bratliff wrote: > > In many cases, encoding is a waste of time.  If standard polys work > correctly, why bother to encode ? In my case, the principal reason is it reduces the amount of data transferred from the server to the client, thus helping our bandwidth usage figures; an

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread KirAsh4
On Sep 5, 9:37 am, "Pil (Trustworthy from Experience)" wrote: > > But did you really paste in every lat und lng separately? > Not very comfortable. ;-) > > I'd try this one > > http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/GoogleMaps/EncodePolyline/encodeFor... For this test, yes I did. As I was adding the

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread bratliff
On Sep 5, 8:08 am, KirAsh4 wrote: > I'm trying to use the Polyline Encoder Utility and not having a whole > lot of luck. When I try to display my map and not encoding the > points, everything works as expected. However, if I try to encode the > points using the utility [1], the same points gene

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread KirAsh4
On Sep 5, 9:26 am, "geocode...@gmail.com" wrote: > > Haven't tested it yet, but I suspect that  in the encoded points: > > iocsfbsmasblgrf~dms...@culaq_@i}...@cmgpawvfwdh@c...@]gmaxwr > \kRGsCuC_FcW~]Q > > "\" needs to be encoded as "\\" And that was it. This is what happens when it's 3 in th

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread Pil (Trustworthy from Experience)
Yes, Larry is right. I just tried it out. But did you really paste in every lat und lng separately? Not very comfortable. ;-) I'd try this one http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/GoogleMaps/EncodePolyline/encodeForm.html On Sep 5, 10:08 am, KirAsh4 wrote: > I'm trying to use the Polyline En

Re: Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread geocode...@gmail.com
On Sep 5, 4:08 am, KirAsh4 wrote: > I'm trying to use the Polyline Encoder Utility and not having a whole > lot of luck.  When I try to display my map and not encoding the > points, everything works as expected.  However, if I try to encode the > points using the utility [1], the same points gene

Polyline Encoder Utility oddity

2009-09-05 Thread KirAsh4
I'm trying to use the Polyline Encoder Utility and not having a whole lot of luck. When I try to display my map and not encoding the points, everything works as expected. However, if I try to encode the points using the utility [1], the same points generate some strange results. I have a test m