Thank you, you really helped me out!

That's perfect!



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Feb 2, 9:37 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Feb 2, 9:23 am, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > Now it should work in IE but I've still the same problem with the
> > > > markers...
> >
> > > Works in IE6.
> >
> > > Your maths fall down because of the distortions of Mercator
> > > projection.
> >
> > > Example -
> > > Halfway between latitudes X and Y is NOT (X +Y) / 2 exactly.
> > > The error gets bigger as you get nearer the poles and as you deal with
> > > country or continent size areas.
> >
> > > You'll either have to do some cleverer geo-math, or work in pixels
> > > instead.  Looking into API provided functions to return points at a
> > > given distance might be helpful, if say you wanted markers every few
> > > km.
> >
> > If I use .GetPointsAtDistance() to place the markers and use the
> > resulting array to generate the line, the markers follow the line at
> > all zoom levels.  As you zoom in, the polyline drawn through the
> > markers and the original one converge.
>
> http://www.geocodezip.com/intern_gmap_1.html
>
> >
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