How to retrieve a static map showing city or municipality boundaries

Question

I'm not sure where to start looking in the documentation, but I'm trying to load map images of cities with their boundaries outlined.

Like this...

Any help getting started would be greatly appreciated, I'm pretty new to the maps api.

Thanks

Drawee

You might try using: openstreetmap.org – Ambros

Answer 1

There is currently no way to request a map with boundaries automatically rendered on it. Your best bet is to pull the polygon information from another system and render using an encoded polyline if you're using the Static Map API or regular overlays in the JavaScript API.

Capelin

Answer 2

Google Static Map API

Here it is

Prosit

I'd like to see an example. I can't get it to work. Here's a static map API link without the boundaries, that at the same zoom on maps.google.com, shows boundaries. maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/… – Christensen

@HeitorChang: Can you link to the map with boundaries? I don't see them in the Google Maps map. – Buckshot

At close zooms, the boundaries disappear. maps.google.com/… – Christensen

I looked through this pretty close and don't see any obvious way to display borders at any zoom level. Am i missing something obvious? Do you have to pass in encoded data to draw out the boundaries? – Drawee

Answer 3

here, some links to help you:

Geographical boundaries of states/provinces -> Google Maps Polygon

EInsert extension

Boundary Draw - Google Map Application

Getting neighbourhood boundaries from Google Maps API

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8441467/can-you-draw-custom-search-boundaries-in-google-map

Ability to draw boundaries on Google Maps

Aliber