Well I was trying to avoid involvement of Database since the service would be global and actual service is based on run time calculation rather fetching of data and processing but it seems I would have to load from DB anyway.
So in order to display markers for the cities currently displayed on browser, I use getBounds() to fetch upper/lower limit of Long and Lat and then query db to find out which CITIES are coming in range? am I right? Thanks /A On Dec 28, 7:30 pm, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Google uses image tiles to show the detail on the map, one set of > tiles is created for each zoom level. You can see this by examining > the contents of a Google map web page for images, each tile is 256x256 > pixels and the mapping system "stitches" them together to form a > coherent image. > > The data behind the map isn't available directly, however, you can get > coordinates of world cities (as points) from Geonames.org among other > places. You'll need to construct a database to use the data. > > -John Coryat > > http://maps.huge.info > > http://www.usnaviguide.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
