Thanks, Ross and Andrew. If I wanted this to be a more accurate representation at greater cof values, would I need to render the circle using geodesic gpolylines?
On Jun 5, 11:34 am, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps my ruler isn't very accurate, but when I open that link above, > > the circle is about 3 meters short. I adjusted the cof param to try > > something like 1200 and it was off by ~67 meters. > > Looking at that link, I get a circle(ish) measuring 92mm dia on my > screen at some given zoom level, while the scale for 50m measures > 37mm. That makes it 124m across, within my measurement errors. There > will be some rounding erors from the javascript floating point > calculations. If you try larger sizes (1200m) the Mercator > distortion will become more apparent. The scale is only valid for one > part of the map. > > At a basic level, it's a streetmap not an artichectural plan, I don't > think making your poly "more accurate" would be very meaningful on top > of the base maps? > > cheers, Ross K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
