On Oct 18, 5:48 pm, Rumith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 1) Can this be considered a bug; should I file it?

Absolutely not. In fact, you've answered that with your second
question. ;-)


> 2) If not (Google does disclaim that GMaps in the default Merkator
> projection isn't really suitable for polar regions), are there any
> workarounds, aside from artificially limiting all latitudes with a
> value like [+/-]84 degrees?

The workaround may be using a polar projection:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=polar+projection+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fgoogle-maps-api%2F&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq=polar+projection+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fgoogle-maps-api%2F&fp=4e03d1423f07b33e


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>
> To see this behavior, go tohttp://www.spacetrackr.com, and either
> watch the footprint of one of the satellites as it approaches a polar
> region, or find a satellite that is currently in one of them and check
> it to render.
>
> Warning: the site is currently in beta and performs poorly on old
> computers and slow browsers.
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