MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.8.8 with SMTP id l8mr39268ybi.17.1199963192742; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:06:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-IP: 83.88.187.184 References: <5ZjF00Cf36VHFwJM@econym.demon.co.uk> <8adaa5bb0712101118p4f09b699m6e7bee285bef9408@mail.gmail.com> <6455781b-e133-45dd-b2a7-007965219a30@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Subject: Re: Mars, Moon and Sky v2.95 previews From: Peter Brodersen To: Google Maps API Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On 15 Dec. 2007, 16:21, Mike Williams wrote: > >Also inGoogle Skythe GLargeMapControl seems to have more zoom levels > >in the control than there actually are levels of imagery in the map. > > I suspect that's a typo. On this line (from APIv2.95) the "19" should > probably be "10". Yeah, I have just run into that bug as well. Furthermore the GScaleControl() is providing pretty small values. In general this control might be useless for a map of this type as we don't know how far away the object we are looking at really is. Where the pictures from Earth, Moon and Mars is somewhat based on a flat surface where everything is pretty much the same distance from the camera we here have depths in the images. Perhaps GScaleControl() should just not be available as it seem useless and might provide wrong numbers to people. Just a thought: it would be nice with a "geocoding" service for the different map types to be able to look up e.g. Polaris or other stars