Whoops! Spoke too soon. It puts a box on the map, which is centered on the box, but the map bounds are outside of the box I specified.
Still looking. Bill > On Jun 30, 2017, at 6:12 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Jonathon and hh: > Ok, it looks like I’ve made some progress, Googling around in the static maps > api. I found that it is possible to directly set the lat lon bounds of the > map I get. That’s even better than letting Google decide how much of the map > to display and working backwards to get the corners. If I use the path= > parameter and don’t specify zoom and center, I get exactly the map with the > specified lat/lon bounds. Whoopee! > > I’m testing it more. > Bill P > >> On Jun 30, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> I am looking at your stack now. I don't see any place where you use >> JavaScript to get get the bounds from the Google maps API. >> >> I think you would have to do it that way to get a reliable result. >> >> That won't give you corners, exactly, but it will give you a minimum >> bounding rectangle that contains your map. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 8:02 PM, jonathandly...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Bill, >>> >>> The bounds will only give you the corners of the image if you are facing >>> exactly North, south, east, or west, >>> >>> I am sorry I have not had a chance to check out your stack - will do so >>> shortly >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 7:56 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hermann: >>>> I got your stack. It pretty much is where I am at now. However, it doesn’t >>>> solve my problem. If you notice the “geocode” call output, nothing changes >>>> when the zoom level changes. This isn’t much help when trying to find the >>>> lat/lon values of the corners of the image. That’s what I need. Neither >>>> the “bounds” parameters nor the “viewport” parameters change with zoom >>>> level. So, it doesn’t help when trying to get the corner lat/lons, which >>>> change with zoom level. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Bill >>>> >>>>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 8:32 AM, hh via use-livecode >>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You may use the technique of a stack I made in April 2017 on base of >>>>> a discussion started by you in the list: >>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2017-April/236632.html >>>>> >>>>> I posted it just now here (Raspi stacks collection #100) >>>>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p=155414#p155414 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>>> subscription preferences: >>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
