Hi John, google.maps.Circle correctly handles radius. Large circles do appear "egg" shaped on the map as you describe.
Cheers Ben On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM, John Coryat <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Be aware that a circle will not define a radius properly. Since the map > stretches the latitude in relation to the longitude, a circle will be (as a > unit measurement) have different dimensions in the north-south direction as > opposed to the east-west direction. If you want to represent a radius on the > map, you'll need to use a polygon with correctly defined coordinates. Not > difficult but harder than a plain circle. > > The circle function (google.maps.Circle) doesn't handle this issue > correctly. Circles should appear "egg" shaped on the map, especially at > higher latitudes. Instead, they appear perfectly circular, so they are not > truly defined by meters as the documentation states. > > This may not matter in your application but I suggest keeping it in mind in > case you find your results are confusing. > > -John Coryat > > http://maps.huge.info > > http://www.zipmaps.net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/i4dKtBnKzaQJ. > > To post to this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
