I'm creating a heatmap from user and download data but some of my data has just country whereas some I have specific addresses. The addresses work great and I can place my marker, but placing tens if not hundreds or markers in the same spot for the country only entries doesn't create a very interesting map.
What I'd like is a way to specify a country and get a random lat/lng location within that country. Yes, I could get a list of cities for every country and randomly code a random city, but I need to do this for potentially every country so would prefer to not have to compile the city list like that. My other idea is to geocode the country (should give the "center" of the country" and then add/subtract a random lat/lng value to get a random location, but countries vary so much in size this would be difficult to get a good distribution around a country. Other ideas? I'm posting this to the V2 forum as that is the API I've been using but could use the V3 API too. Thanks! Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" 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.
