Google Maps distance to sea coast

Question

Given just one point in Google Maps, is there anyway to know the distance to the nearest point in the coast (that is the minimun distance to the sea), and which point in the coa

Answer 1

we did something similar to that for Booli.se, on the map search functionality. For each listing we precompute the distance to the ocean by checking the point against the tiles served by google. Check for water color in the image, and calculate the distance. I'm afraid that there is no pre-built functionality for this.