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.
poyom: This would especially be nice when doing dynamic updates so the vertices
don't have to be sent every poll. And don't forget about ellipses and arcs.
Requestor: nickg [at] modp [dot] com
Supporters: Poyom
Original issue reported on code.google.com by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2008 at 5:48
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
api.roman.public@gmail.comon 14 Aug 2008 at 5:48