It really depends on whether the "rectangular" areas that you're trying to represent take the Earth's curvature into consideration.
If the regions you're trying to represent really are bounded by lines of latitude and longitude, then Google Maps rectangles will map them correctly, and they'll look rectangular on a Mercator map. They won't look rectangular on the ground. In particular, the length of the north edge will differ from the length of the south edge. For example, consider a region bounded by the 50 and 51 degree lines of latitude, and by any two lines of longitude. The northern edge will be 2.1% shorter than the southern edge. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
