There are lots of different "centres" for polygons that can be calculated automatically, but no one method always does the right thing for dealing with geographic regions.
In the early days of Google Maps, they used to use the centre of the bounds of a country, so if you asked for America you got a point that was the centre of a box that contained Alaska and Hawaii as well as the continental states. That point was in the Pacific Ocean. Any automatic centre calculated for Croatia will return a point in Bosnia, and most automatic centres calculated for Vietnam will return a point in Laos, and for Norway, Sweden. The centres that the geocoder returns for Vietnam and Norway are almost certainly set manually. -- http://econym.org.uk/gmap The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
