Creating a Bus Route Map

[alexasartroom]

Hi Everyone,
I am attempting to create a map that compiles all of the bus routes in
my area for my work so that we can direct college students to the
correct route so that they can volunteer at various organizations in
the community. Unfortunately I do not have any latitude or longetude
coordinates that would help me create a line file in ArcGIS or other
geo program. Thus far I have been hand drawing the lines in google
maps but have run into an issue with having to create multiple lines
that are essentialy the same bus route which is bad because each
segment is represented on the legend as a seperate line. Is there any
way for me to make these lines continuous. If you would like to see
what I have already created so you can better understand what I need
help with look under user-created maps in google and type in
Greensboro GTA/Volunteer Map.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Roman N]

Hi alexasartroom,

You can use either Google Earth or Google Maps' "My Maps" feature to
create mutli-point polylines. If you're looking to create a web page
of this information, you may just want to try using the Google Maps
API:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps

You can use the Maps API's geocoder to get latitude/longitude
information for a given address and since you're plotting bus routes,
you may want to check out the driving directions service as well. Here
are some useful links for the geocoder and driving directions services
in JavaScript.. i.e for use on a web page:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GClientGeocoder
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GDirections

Hope that helps,
- Roman

[GTrek]

Hi alexasartroom,

Just a thought, check out www.gtrek.co.uk. It's a GPS data logger,
take it a ride on the bus and record all the locational information
you need. Export as a KML file and problem solved.

Regards

John

On Nov 25, 6:41 pm, Roman N wrote:
> Hi alexasartroom,
>
> You can use either Google Earth or Google Maps' "My Maps" feature to
> create mutli-point polylines. If you're looking to create a web page
> of this information, you may just want to try using the Google Maps
> API:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps
>
> You can use the Maps API's geocoder to get latitude/longitude
> information for a given address and since you're plotting bus routes,
> you may want to check out the driving directions service as well. Here
> are some useful links for the geocoder and driving directions services
> in JavaScript.. i.e for use on a web page:
>

> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GClient...http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GDirect...

>
> Hope that helps,
> - Roman
>
> On Nov 20, 8:30 pm, alexasartroom wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I am attempting to create a map that compiles all of the bus routes in
> > my area for my work so that we can direct college students to the
> > correct route so that they can volunteer at various organizations in
> > the community. Unfortunately I do not have any latitude or longetude
> > coordinates that would help me create a line file in ArcGIS or other
> > geo program. Thus far I have been hand drawing the lines in google
> > maps but have run into an issue with having to create multiple lines
> > that are essentialy the same bus route which is bad because each
> > segment is represented on the legend as a seperate line. Is there any
> > way for me to make these lines continuous. If you would like to see
> > what I have already created so you can better understand what I need
> > help with look under user-created maps in google and type in
> > Greensboro GTA/Volunteer Map.

> > Thanks for any help you can provide.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -