On Aug 26, 10:26 pm, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM, [email protected] <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> On Aug 26, 9:26 pm, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, [email protected]
> >> > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> > > On Aug 26, 7:49 pm, xf_aicn <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > > > Hi all,
>
> >> > > > Now i'm doing a project that connect two place with a
> >> > > > polyline(geodesic is true), and then at the same time, show a marker
> >> > > > on the middle of the polyline, how can I do this? I can't get the
> >> > > > coordinate on thepolyline
>
> >> > >http://www.geocodezip.com/v3_polyline_example_geodesic.html
>
> >> > > Seems to be off the "native" google geodesic polyline.  Don't know
> >> > > why.
>
> >> > The geodesic marker looks OK me in Chrome/WinXP.  I've attempted to
> >> attach
> >> > an image, though I do not know if groups allows attachments.
>
> >> > In which browser are you seeing the problem?
>
> >> IE6 (and Chrome, FF; Opera doesn't seem to want to show the map), but
> >> click on the marker then "zoom in" to see the difference in the
> >> polylines (the green polyline is the "native" google maps one, the red
> >> is the one that was calculated).  How are the "native" geodesic
> >> polylines rendered?
>
> > Oh interesting: if the green line is the native geodesic then it appears
> > slightly off compared to the red line.  At least one of them is wrong - I'll
> > take a look.
>
> Even more interesting: if you zoom in enough so that the 2 lines are
> distinct, then pan repeatedly (try the home/end/pgup/pgdn keys), the red
> line seems to wander away from the green line and then wander back again,
> meeting at regular intervals.  So they agree at a set of virtual vertices,
> and diverge elsewhere.
>
> Your function geodesicPolyline() seems to compute 50 intermediate vertices,
> is that right?

Yes.  I hadn't notices the scalloping.  But if I put markers on the
points that are calculated, that isn't where the lines line up...
v3_polyline_example_geodesic_proj.html

Using your suggestion fixes the mid-point on the normal polyline.

   -- Larry


> >> > The center marker on the "normal" polyline seems off as well.
>
> >> > For the "normal" polyline did you average in LatLng space or projected
> >> > coordinates?  I couldn't spot it at a glance of your code.
>
> >> > >  -- Larry
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> >> >  geodesic_markers.PNG
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