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Re: Reading text from Google Maps

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"Robert Crandal" <noreply2me@yahoo.com> wrote on 09 mei 2015 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> Is it possible to use JavaScript or any other language

Let us forget about Swahili, afer all you are asking in a Javascript NG.

> to extract all
> the text from any area of Google Maps?  I'm mostly interested in
> extracting all the street names from a city section, but business names
> are okay too.

No, don't think so.
 
> I know this is a far-fetched idea, but I can't think of any other method
> for obtaining all (or most) of the street names of a city.  If anybody
> has any better ideas I'd love to hear them.

Perhaps you can use autocomplete with "geocode" restriction.

<https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#Autoc
omplete>

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Reading text from Google Maps "Robert Crandal" <noreply2me@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-08 18:47 -0700
  Re: Reading text from Google Maps "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-09 12:33 +0200
  Re: Reading text from Google Maps Robin Rattay <rotora@gmx.net> - 2015-05-10 10:47 +0200
  Re: Reading text from Google Maps Dr J R Stockton <reply1500@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-05-11 18:59 +0100

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