On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Adynan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I did not get it. > > Yes I do know about methods you mentioned but will these methods > return a single point? How would I know which point do I i have to set > for "South" and which for "West"?
If you have a latitude and longitude which defines the NorthEast corner of the bounding box, what is the northmost latitude of the bounding box? What is the eastmost longitude? NW ---------- NE | | SW ---------- SE -- Larry > > Can you provide an example for better elaboration? > > Thanks > > /A > > On Jan 7, 10:35 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Jan 7, 9:29 am, Adynan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > I just discovered world cities service by Geonames: > > > >http://www.geonames.org/export/JSON-webservices.html#citiesJSONwhich > > > takes following parameters: > > > > north,south,east,west : coordinates of bounding box > > > > How can i map getBounds() return coordinates into mentioned > > > directions? > > >http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GLatLng... > > > Lists these > > methods:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GLatLng...... > > > > 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-Hidequoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
