[postgis-users] Google Polyline into PostGIS

[James David Smith]

Dear Richard,

Info about Google Polyline's here:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/utilities/polylinealgorithm

Thanks for tips - will check them out.

Cheers

James

On 16 February 2013 14:16, Richard Greenwood
<richard.greenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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