On Sep 1, 8:00 am, jrawr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way to find the distance in km, miles w/
> e of a Google map - so, the user has the map at a certain zoom, and I
> need to know what the distance is between the top of the map and the
> bottom, and the left and right.

The distance across the top and across the bottom will be different.
distance across the top in meters (assuming the GMap2 object is
"map"):
map.getBounds().getNorthEast().distanceFrom(new
GLatLng(map.getBounds().getNorthEast().lat(),map.getBounds().getSouthWest().lng()))

  -- Larry


>
> I need this because I want to search for videos on YouTube, and since
> YT doesn't currently support bounding boxes (as Flickr does), I need
> to manually input the centre location and the distances of the map
> bounds as a radius.
>
> Hopefully I've been clear enough, and thanks in advance for the help.

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