On Oct 8, 9:12 pm, Peter Brodersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there is a simple method for calculating a new > set of coordinates with an existing set plus offset (and direction). from this search: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_frm/thread/36428c0f1b12b9ba/50ae79fd589ba5e9?lnk=gst&q=direction+and+bearing#50ae79fd589ba5e9
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html#destPoint > > E.g. I would like to get the coordinate 20 meter east of the current > location. I would expect to pass a distance (e.g. 20 meters) and a > bearing - with respect for a spherical Earth. > > Such a function would be a complement to GLatLng.distanceFrom(). > > My mission is to fetch data from a database in the proximity of a > (draggable) marker. I would like to search an area of something like > 50x50 meter. > > Even though the distance between two points depend on the latitude I > only need a simple rectangle. Pretty much just like GMap2.getBounds() > > "For extra credit" :-) This might be in the same category: > > I have thought of creating a "zone" around a GPolygon from > GDirections. The idea is once again to fetch data in the proximity of > the route. In this case a simple rectangle boundary would not be > sufficient. My first though was just to crudely create a rectangle > around each line based on the bearing and start- and end-point. > > - Peter Brodersen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
