Maybe I did something wrong, but when I set geodesic to true, I got
(globe) rounded lines, rather than plane-straight lines. Especially on
a high zoomlevel (<5).

I'm probably going to try to take the approach to break up a line
depending on zoomlevel or something. Or maybe stop caring about such
lines...

On 1 sep, 22:49, Rossko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ... For me, this time, it's
> > important that the line remains straight, not bend with the earth.
>
> That'll be a problem, the G-Maps API is all geared to representing the
> Earth's surface where there's no such thing as a straight line.   You
> may have to do your own calculations for a straight line overlaid on
> the distorted map.
>
> You might be able to minimise the apparent error by segmenting the
> straight line say every 500km, but I think you'd have some
> 'interesting' calculations to do there to keep it appearing straight
> though!
>
> > It would make more sense to me that a line that
> > has, say, Moscow left of a GPolyline at one zoomlevel, would still
> > have it left at any other zoomlevel.
>
> I suspect that's exactly how the geodesic version behaves, it acts
> like a straight line but it won't please your eye because it doesn't
> LOOK straight.
>
> good luck, Ross K
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