Thanks Chris, thats just what I want. Good point about the projection issue.
Dave. > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:46:03AM -0000, David Potts wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> I known this question been asked before, but how do you draw a circle >> using a google map background? >> >> My first attempt uses a vector feature with a style object, draws the >> circle looks great. > > What is your goal? Something that looks like a circle on a mercator map > is not actually going to be a 'circle' on the ground, so if that's what > you're concerned about, then this doesn't make sense. > > If this is what you want anyway, then the function you're looking for is: > > > http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Geometry/Polygon-js.html#OpenLayers.Geometry.Polygon.createRegularPolygon > > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/regular-polygons.html > > the latter is demonstrating using the REgularPolygon drawing control, > but that uses the createRegularPolygon method internally. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > -- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of the Pinan Software _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
