Hi again, I just discovered world cities service by Geonames:
http://www.geonames.org/export/JSON-webservices.html#citiesJSON which takes following parameters: north,south,east,west : coordinates of bounding box How can i map getBounds() return coordinates into mentioned directions? Thanks /A On Dec 28 2008, 8:49 pm, Adynan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks John,I think manual system will be required anyway. > > Regards, > > /A > On Dec 28, 8:30 pm, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's no guaranteed way to determine what cities are being displayed > > at any particular zoom level. You could generalize that cities of > > certain population are being displayed at each zoom, but that would > > not work for sparstely or heavily populated areas equally. Essentially, > > you're stuck with either an imperfect solution or a manually derived > > one. > > > Geonames.org does have population figures for world cities, so that > > should help somewhat. The data on their site is available as a > > download, so you can build your own database and process it as you > > like. > > > -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
