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Google maps - outline a county

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:59 pm
by Luke
Is there an easy method to outline like counties with google maps? I realize I can do it manually with points, but it seems like there should already be an outline of counties somewhere in their code. Anybody know?

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:23 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Have you read their API docs? They are insanely long but might be able to provide you the information you need. Also, have you seen it done before? Maybe sneak a peak at their code.

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:31 am
by Luke
Well I sort of found out how to do it... I downloaded an insanely long list of points from census.gov which outlines all the counties in california (I only need 4, which I have isolated). anyway... it's like 30,500 lat/lon coordinates. I really don't know what to do next though. I was told to do this much by a few guys on google groups, but I see no way to convert this many points from the files they provided into something useful to me... like a mysql database. I guess it's time to do some research.