On Aug 12, 8:34 pm, Henryk Sarat <[email protected]> wrote: > have an interesting problem where I want to see if a pair of > Latitude/Longitude points are within the region of 4 other specified ones. > An application of this is specifying 4 intersections and seeing if the > address is within that region. With the Google Maps Geocoding API > (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/) it's easy to > convert the intersections into the long/lat and if the area is a perfect > rectangle it's easy.... but what if the street is curvey? Does something > like this already exist?
You could possibly use the directions service to get the polylines for the roads, use those polylines to create a polygon (or not), then do point in polygon analysis to see if the address is inside that polygon. -- Larry -- 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 [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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
