How to store useful information about a polygon drawn by google maps drawing tool and then again draw it by that information?

Question

I am trying to draw a polygon with maps drawing tool. Now I want to store useful information about that polygon in the database so I can again draw that same polygon by retrieving the data. what is that information and how I can use that to draw same polygon?

Answer 1

I would suggest you use a Data type of Varchar/ Specific data type (depending of Database in use) in the table and store the metadata of Polygon or any shape as XML/JSON.

Here's link a https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding#GeocodingResults