Dan, It might be difficult for Google Maps to reach the north pole, because the globe is mapped to tiles via a Mercator projection, which theoretically speaking anyways, never reaches the pole (which is why Greenland and northern Canada is wildly distorted by Google Maps).
Have you considered the Google Earth Plug-in. It serves up the North Pole nicely! http://code.google.com/apis/earth/ Thank you Kevin Macdonald On Mar 5, 12:05 am, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan- > > I think your best bet is to add GroundOverlay(s) above where the > current map stops. You'd have to create these images yourself, and > figure out what they should have painted on them, since we don't have > tiles that far north. Then you can add a GroundOverlay at a northern > LatLngBounds, e.g.: > new LatLngBounds(new LatLng(85.172074,36.210938), new > LatLng(89.719591,167.695313)) > > - pamela > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Dan Griffey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am looking for some advice with a project I am running for a female > > explorer headed (solo) to the North Pole. > > We are tracking her progress with the Google Maps (and Earth) Flash > > API, which is great, but when we fall back on Maps API we obviously > > don't have any mapping north of the arctic circle zone, which is just > > dead space on the default maps projection > > > My question is, has anyone come up with a solution for this - I would > > imagine a custom overlay or mapping segment that we can use to extend > > the projection North to 0 deg? Here's a link to the working page > > (which defaults to Earth API as a workaround). > >http://www.oceanracetrack.com/clients/christinafranco/googlemap.htm > > > Thanks for any help you can offer, and hope you are well. > > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
