Rotate the Map, Don't want to use True North...

[pcbcom]

Hi,

Is there a way to not use True north on Google Map?  The issue that we have is in both South Padre Island and Panama City Beach are long beach areas that while can be rotated with easily fit within a rectangle, but don't fit within our design because Google uses true North.  Is there a way to rotate the Map away from the current true North?

Thanks,

cMason

[pcbcom]

Am I the only person in the world that said, "Hey Google, I need to rotate the map for design purposes!"?

[Chris Broadfoot]

You can see a few others that want this too:

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2515

Please star the issue to show your support.

One way to do this today is to use the Flash API. The drawbacks are that your users will need Flash, and the labels won't be rotated at the same time.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:32 PM, pcbcom <charle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Am I the only person in the world that said, "Hey Google, I need to rotate the map for design purposes!"?

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[Steve D]

I would really like to see the vector tiles (ala Google Maps Mobile 5 that was recently released).  Preferably without having to use flash as well.  Rotating a raster map unfortunately creates problems of its own because text and other details lose some of their fidelity.  

Pcbcom, you can try rotating the map using css transforms.  I've had some success with this, but it rotates *everything* which might not be desirable.  If it's just an unlabeled satellite imagery map with no visible controls it can work nice enough (though in my limited tests a while back I kept having issues where the odd tile wouldn't load for some reason, can't tell you if that's still the case.)  The trick would be to hide map using z-level so that it can be squared off (unless it fits by rotating exactly 90 degrees...)  

-Steve D

[pcbcom]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the link and will check it out.  Prefer not to use flash, dying technology, and our overall design is working in iOS (HTML5) environment.  But still useful to know and maybe helpful for others searching for a solution.

Happy New Year,

cMason

[pcbcom]

Hi Steve,

Great idea, any issues with providing example code?  This will give my programmers a level of encouragement to find a permanent solution that I will post here.

Thanks in advance and happy new year.

cMason