On May 9, 4:26 pm, Patrick Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to draw an ARC instead of a standard (straight-line) > path between points?
If you define the arc. > It may be for aesthetics only, but the overlapping lines of normal > paths makes it difficult to optimize views for points that may lie > under the trajectory of a longer path. > An example would be Paul Butler's implementation using > R:http://paulbutler.org/archives/visualizing-facebook-friends/ > > Currently my idea is to have a simple ARC 'height' level to provide > either a positive or negative number, so that the ARC would increase/ > decrease perpendicular to the straight path. There's nothing in the Static Maps documentation about geodesic arcs. You could do something similar to Paul Butler, calculating your own curved line, encoding it (various external libraries and routines are available) and then passing the encoded line to the Static Map generator. -- 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.
