Marcelo does it very well with a mask http://maps.forum.nu/gm_texas.html
you just need to find the data to create the mask. a good starting point is http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ (dated data but free) Mapperz http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ On Sep 11, 8:22 pm, Grok Lobster <[email protected]> wrote: > The Google Charts APi has a map type that will do what you want very > easily but it's not > interactivehttp://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#maps > > Otherwise, check for a Tigerline shapefile for the country of interest > and convert it to KML. > > On Sep 11, 10:45 am, jordoncm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to shade a country? > > > The only ideas I have come up are: > > 1. Creating a polygon. This is very complex because of how complex any > > countries shape is. > > 2. Generating a KML file that contains the polygon and then just > > loading it as an overlay. > > > It seems like this would be a common thing for people to want to do > > and I was hoping there was an easy trick I didn't know of. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
