New How Big Is Google Maps?

Recently the Google Maps API added the pick to permit polygon shapes on Google Maps to live on set to draggable. If the polygon belongings is laid upward to true, the user tin forcefulness out together with then drag the cast over the map.

Google created a pop game, they called Mercator Puzzle, to present the novel draggable polygon option. The game laid upward the geodesic belongings of the polygons to true, which agency the game provides a corking insight into the Mercator projection. It is rattling noticeable inwards the game how the polygons resize every bit you lot drag northward together with S on the map.

How large is Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania? every bit good makes role of draggable polygons amongst the geodesic belongings of the polygons laid upward to true. In this illustration it allows the user to drag a polygon of Lake Tanganyika roughly on Google Maps together with run into how it compares inwards size when placed over other locations.

The app comes amongst all the code therefore you lot tin forcefulness out create your ain illustration using cast files of other locations. The resultant is rattling like to (and is fifty-fifty called a 'customisable mimic' of) the BBC's Dimensions projection How Big Really?.

The BBC Dimensions projects allows you lot to deed polygons of of import places together with events roughly on Google Maps together with overlay them on other locations to assistance plough over you lot a feel of scale of these locations.