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Elliott
Elliott

Reputation: 3864

Google Maps API V3 UK Districts

I'm trying to set a border around some districts in the UK, similar to how Google do it on here : http://g.co/maps/wbtj3

Does Google release the latitude and longitude data for districts? I cannot see anything in the API which will allow me to search for a district and get the data for it to display on the map.

Is there an easy way to "extract" the latitude and longitude data for a district for use in an polygon?

It seems that American data is easier to find (http://econym.org.uk/gmap/states.xml) or am I not looking hard enough?

Appreciate any advice :).

Edit: I believe it's pretty new as I can't find much info about it "highlighted search results" - http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2012/01/highlighted-search-results-in-google.html

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6730

Answers (5)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 1

Just came across this thread - you may have solved the problem a long time ago, but this may be useful: http://mapit.mysociety.org/

Upvotes: 0

SKR
SKR

Reputation: 180

afaik google doesn't offer such service in his APIs. But you could download you file of interest here: http://www.gadm.org/country if you grab it as kml, you could easily import it into Google-Maps.

Upvotes: 0

tcarobruce
tcarobruce

Reputation: 3838

OpenStreetMap has boundary data for English Counties which are free to use and available in multiple formats.

As far as I know, Google does not provide any underlying map data via an API.

Upvotes: 4

duncan
duncan

Reputation: 31922

I think you'd have to figure out the polygon coordinates yourself. If it was only for a few districts, maybe not such an onerous task. But if it's for the whole of the UK... Here's a website that will quickly give you coordinates as you draw polygons: http://www.birdtheme.org/useful/v3tool.html

Upvotes: 0

user1067706
user1067706

Reputation:

Getting co-ordinates for a polygon would require GIS files and a GIS software like MapInfo to read.

My advice would be visit this site;

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=332073

Download the KML file which has the district boundaries of UK counties and then use it in either google earth or fusion tables.

Finding out what your using these for may help get a better answer...

Upvotes: 0

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