Get bounds of a US state

[matt wilson]

Is there a straight forward way to querying the bounds of a state?

When I plot markers and I come across situations where they're all in
the same state, I don't want the zoom to come in tighter than the
whole state.

I understand the long hand way would be to find and store two opposing
lat,lngs for every state and include those in my bounds, but I was
looking for a less grueling method.

Thanks

[Michael Geary]

There's a list of state bounding boxes you can copy out of the PolyGonzo source code:

http://code.google.com/p/polygonzo/source/browse/trunk/code/polymap.js

Search the code for PolyMap.states for the list, and search for zoomToBounds to see an example of using one of the bounding boxes.

-Mike

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[geoco...@gmail.com]

On Apr 1, 4:03 pm, matt wilson <mmat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a straight forward way to querying the bounds of a state?

The geocoder will return a bounding box of the state if you pass it in
to it, you can use that to zoom to the state level.

-- Larry

[geoco...@gmail.com]

On Apr 1, 5:45 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Apr 1, 4:03 pm, matt wilson <mmat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a straight forward way to querying the bounds of a
> > state?
>
> The geocoder will return a bounding box of the state if you pass it
> in to it, you can use that to zoom to the state level.

Like this:
http://geocodezip.com/v3_zoom2stateSelectList.html