[postgis-users] Google Polyline into PostGIS

[Richard Greenwood]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:44 AM, James David Smith <
james.david.smith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've had a quick search online and found a few people who have had
> similar questions, but no definite answers. My question is whether
> there is a simple way to take an encoded Google Polyline and place it
> into a Geometry column of type Polyline within PostGIS (that PostGIS
> understands and can work with).
>
> By way of background, I am using the Google Directions API to generate
> some routes, and I want to store the results in a PostGIS database.
>

I do not know what a "encoded Google Polyline" is but I believe Google can
output KML. ogr2ogr can read KML and write to postgis, so that's where I
would start.

Rich

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Richard Greenwood
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