I need to draw complex regional bounding polygons in google maps. Is there a way to easily access regional data to draw these polygons? The regions will be australian postcode areas. If you type a post code into google (not maps normal search) such as “2454” into google the first result is an image with the regional polygon (perhaps this search only works if your searching from australia). Im assuming this data is accessible as google is drawing the polygon.
any idea how i would access this bounds data?
an example of what im talking about is here
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?pq=australian+postcode+2454&hl=en&cp=0&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=2454&safe=off&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1876&bih=872&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6b9e9f724b020f8d:0x1c0609b7ccd310d0,New+South+Wales+2454&gl=au&ei=a3MoT66iKoKuiQelk7m3Ag&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CDIQ8gEwAQ
This data isn’t available through the Google Maps API at this time. You would need to find a 3rd party provider of the boundary data. A quick query shows several providers of the data, though I’m not sure if they’re provided anywhere for free. Once you get the data, it’s probably in a GIS data format, such as a Shapefile or a KML file. These can be loaded into Google Fusion Tables or KML files can be loaded directly using a Google Maps API KMLLayer.