I hear you, thanks for the input. I have to re-think the way i want to implement this. Currently, i was trying to input the center of the area i want to enclose by lat/long values and then trying to build the rectangular area by entering the width and height of the rectangle in miles.
>From the discussion above, this is bound to bring in some error as I increase the size of the rectangle. I am kinda getting confused now. I will re-think over this and come back. Incase you/anyone has more inputs, i surly will be glad to know. Thanks Amit Dixit On Mar 3, 9:48 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
