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KML should have RegularPolygon element #4

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is really an "issue" -- however the kmlcircle code should really just
be part of kml.

Here's the request I made:

http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support/web/kml-feature-requests

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83. Feature: RegularPolygon, Circle, Star Elements

Comments: While Polygon is fine, there isn't any support (that I saw
anyways) for regular polygons, circles and whatnot.  It's very non trivial
to compute "make a circle centered at (long,lat), radius 10,000 meters"

I whipped up a little python script to generate this at
http://code.google.com/p/kmlcircle/ 

I used a spherical model, which seems to work ok for radius < 1,000,000m or
so.  It's a bit more work to do the full elipsoidal model, but whatev.
Anyways, me thinks that <RegularPolygon>, etc would be great additions to KML.

Requested by: nickg [at] modp [dot] com

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by nickgsup...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2007 at 3:22