Re: GGeoXml and non-clickable polygon

On 9 juin, 20:03, William <william.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 9, 5:36 pm, Brice <crl.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > what makes possible to fill
> > any place except the area determined by the polygon (the encoded one
> > in my case).
>
> Your example had a large rectangular polygon surrounding France, with
> an interior "donut" polygon of Limousin.
>
> The idea is to make the outer polygon as large as the world, using the
> limits of Google's mercator projection.
>
> I think the maximum geographic dimension of a shape is 180 degrees,
> because the API will always draw the shortest path between any two
> points, so one way to draw the world is in three rectangles:
>
> 1. the first centred in Europe, extending from 89 W longitude to 89 E
> longitude, from north to south pole (approximately 85.05 degrees north
> and south).
> 2. the second from 89W to 180W
> 3. the third from 89E to 180E
>
> these polygons are filled, with no outline, so they appear to cover
> the entire map.
>
> see this example with the Limousin polygon:http://www.william-map.com/20100609/2/inverse.htm
>

Thanks so much William ! I wish I had the idea of the polygon covering
the entire world, but I wouldn't have imagined the way to do it (the
three rectangles) :/
Thanks for the examples and all of your explanations, which are very
clear and very helpful.

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