I have a KML file defining several paths/routes (representing actual roads) enclosed in the tags. Parsing the file to other formats (arrays/MySQL) is already in place, so that's not a problem.
Given a point (longitude/latitude) I would like to be able to check if the point is on or close to (within a few meters) one of the routes in the KML file. I've been looking for a solution in PHP, but I haven't been able to find one - and I'm not really sure, what I'm looking for. This does however seem to me like a common problem, so I suspect someone already solved the problem. Does anybody know of a solution? ;)
Thanks in advance!
解决方案
You need to break this down into two problems:
Generate a set of polygons from each section of your path.
Do a simple point in polygon test on the above polygons.
There should be some php out there to accomplish those two tasks.