Did I miss it or is your own scale missing a scale....on level 1, 230 m is measured by what distance on the map?

Posted by Becky at Thu Jul 14 20:50:35 2005

Nevermind.  I see you are using the distance between the + and - .  OK.  Thanks

Posted by Becky at Thu Jul 14 20:53:05 2005

Google finally did the sensible thing to put a scale on the map :) I'm glad it has metric also.

Posted by Wai Yip Tung at Wed Aug 10 10:32:00 2005

I put google Map on my website (in Traditional Chinese :>) through Google API. I think Google Map uses latitude and longitude to decide what the scale of the map is using. As the spacing between two longitude lines is uneven on the Earth's surface, the distance between two points should not fixed on different latitude (higher the latitude is, shorter the distance between two longitude lines are). Therefore, the distance between two points on high latitude will be shorter even thought at the same scale (zoom level).

In fact, I find many methods to get the lat/long information from Google Map through API. But I can find no method to get the distance (in km/mile) information from Google Map through API.

You can also try to take a look of the Map at zoom level 17 (World map). Greenland is exaggerated and it seems larger than China!

Posted by CHU K L (from Hong Kong) at Sat Oct 8 03:45:02 2005