On Mar 21, 10:23 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Mar 21, 10:00 am, Shanti <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > ok, the code worked perfectly except for one thing, it does not show
> > if its east or west (e.g a marker on the left shows 220.10 and a
> > marker on the right shows 220.10, instead or -220.10) any idea how to
> > fix this?
>
> I don't have that problem on my pages that use the code.
> Where is a link to a map that shows what you are talking about?

Actually:
-220 === +140
Depending on how you code things for an angle in degrees you can get:
-180 to +180
or
0 to 360
0 to 180 is east
0 to -180 or 180 to 360 is west

I guess I don't understand why a marker on the right (to the east)
would return a bearing of 220...

  -- Larry




>
>   -- Larry
>
>
>
> > Thanks! :)
>
> > On Mar 20, 2:10 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Wasn't it neil.young who wrote:
>
> > > >Does one know, whether the JS API function is a great-circle distance
> > > >calculation? The bearing calculatios seems to be it.
>
> > > GLatLng.distanceFrom() considers the Earth to be a perfect sphere. So
> > > you get great circle distances that would be the case if the Earth
> > > wasn't oblate.
>
> > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap
> > > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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