[OpenLayers-Users] Get the length of a line string

Janis Elmeris janis.elmeris at intelligentsystems.lv
Tue May 10 05:10:17 EDT 2011


Aha, thank you!

It would be easier if one could see such a method also for LineString in 
the documentation though.

Janis

On 2011.05.10. 12:05, emmexx wrote:
> Il 05/10/2011 10:45 AM, Janis Elmeris scrisse:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Is getting all vertices (getVertices) of a LineString and using their
>> distanceTo method and summing all the distances together would be the
>> right way to calculate the length of a line string? If yes, why isn't it
>> a standard function of LineString (it seems to me that it should be, and
>> also Google maps API has such).
> What about getLength() ? :-)
>
> Api: Geometry.Collection
>
> Bye
> 	maxx
>
>
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