Ok, I noticed that part, I am not too worried about parts near the poles missing.
I center the map around IN, US and it seems that I am missing a vertical 'strip' for example, in this map, http://neptune.csc.depauw.edu/seismic-test/test.html , I am pretty much missing the area where India is ? Thanks, Ron On Sep 29, 12:51 pm, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 29, 5:38 pm, csdude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I figured the 0 would show me 'the whole world" ? > > It shows the whole of the Google world. Tiles exist up to latitude > 85deg (give or take a little). > > The reason for that cut-off is that Mercator projection puts the poles > at infinity, so the maps need to be cut off somewhere; and using that > latitude means that the zoom 0 tile -- there's just one tile for the > world at that zoom -- is square. There isn't much useful data between > the edges of the map and the poles. > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
