On Dec 2, 2:13 pm, neil <neil...@freenet.de> wrote:

Well, it appears that I can't attach files to this discussion.. suffice it to say here is an overlay that will do the job.. Part of the problem is that it doesn't seem to maintain my code formatting.. lets see if the html tag will work...

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method in MyMapView to get thedirections // if you pass the start_location as an address or location name, then the DrivingDirection object will ignore the start_pos object. // you must pass a null string ( "" ) into either

end_location to make the start_pos (or end_pos relative to

object you are using) count. private void startFetchDirections(MapPoint start_pos, String start_location, MapPoint end_pos, String end_location)     {                 // getdirections                        // mDD is a class variable for the activity that will hold an instance of the DrivingDirection object created here.                         mDD = new

                        if(mDD != null)                         {                                 // add the request the

                                Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {                                     public void run()                                     {                                         // wait for the

complete...                                         while (!mDD.isComplete()) {}                                         //  check to see if any Placemarks were found.. if 0 then there is no route...                                         if (

                                        {                                               // set a flag

directionsare done...                                               // this flag

in your main activity and just set here to let it know..

                                        }                                         else // no route..                                         {                                               // let the

that no route was found...                                         }                                     }                                 });                                 t.start();                         }                 }     }

// this is defined in MyMapView to allow the overlay to have access to thedirectionsit will be rendering.. // you could also just have returned the route of MapPoint[]

wanted since thats what we will be drawing. public DrivingDirection getDrivingDirections()     {         return mDD;     }

// overlay file.... package  your.package.name;

import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.Paint;

import com.google.android.maps.Overlay; import com.google.android.maps.Point; import com.google.googlenav.DrivingDirection; import com.google.googlenav.map.MapPoint;

public class MapDrivingDirectionOverlay extends Overlay {     MyMapView mMap;     Paint paint1 = new Paint();     DrivingDirection dd = null;

    public MapDrivingDirectionOverlay(MyMapView map) {         mMap = map;     }

    public void draw(Canvas canvas, PixelCalculator pixelCalculator, boolean b)     {         super.draw(canvas, pixelCalculator, b); // holders of mapped coords...         int[] screenCoords = new int[2];         int[] screenCoords2 = new int[2];

// method in the custom map view to return the DrivingDirection object.         dd = mMap.getDrivingDirections();         if(dd != null)         { // these methods are to illustrate some of what you can get

system...                 MapPoint s = dd.getRouteStart();                 String name = dd.getRouteStartLocation();                 String distance = dd.getFormattedDistance();