On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Robert wrote: > > Marcelo, Barry, > > Thanks. Apparently, I hadn't read the terms of service carefully > enough. Will do that after dinner tonight. > > As I said in my first post, I only want the continental US in this > case. We have limited space on this particular page for a map, so we > wanted the biggest map possible (for our space) but the zoom level 3 > US map is too small for the space we have available. We can take > people to a secondary page with a larger map after we figure out how > we're going to use the maps, and what navigation makes sense. > > I wasn't really clear about "locating the pins properly." They are > already located in the proper places (I have lat/long for each > location in my database) but we want to show the full US map with all > the pins (until we get too many). > > I guess we're stuck with the level 3 zoom view. We can use the extra > space for a description or some other text. I'll experiment with > letting people click to zoom in.
If you don't mind going to the trouble, you could make your own map projection which would only extend as far as you want, and then render your own tile images that only cover the region you want. However, this would not be a small undertaking, and would require you find data to render in the first place. The upside would be that you could custom-design your tiles to fit certain screen sizes at certain zoom levels and you would still be able to use geocoding and the like as usual (provided your projection works as designed.) As I said, however, that would not be a task for the light-hearted. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
