Verify if a point is Land or Water in Google Maps

These are 2 different ways, you may try: You can use Google Maps Reverse Geocoding . In result set you can determine whether it is water by checking types. In waters case the type is natural_feature. See more at this link http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/#Types. Also you need to check the names of features, if they contain Sea, … Read more

OVER_QUERY_LIMIT in Google Maps API v3: How do I pause/delay in Javascript to slow it down?

Nothing like these two lines appears in Mike Williams’ tutorial: wait = true; setTimeout(“wait = true”, 2000); Here’s a Version 3 port: http://acleach.me.uk/gmaps/v3/plotaddresses.htm The relevant bit of code is // ====== Geocoding ====== function getAddress(search, next) { geo.geocode({address:search}, function (results,status) { // If that was successful if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) { // Lets assume that … Read more

Google Maps JS API v3 – Simple Multiple Marker Example

This is the simplest I could reduce it to: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ /> <title>Google Maps Multiple Markers</title> <script src=”http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY” type=”text/javascript”></script> </head> <body> <div id=”map” style=”width: 500px; height: 400px;”></div> <script type=”text/javascript”> var locations = [ [‘Bondi Beach’, -33.890542, 151.274856, 4], [‘Coogee Beach’, -33.923036, 151.259052, 5], [‘Cronulla Beach’, -34.028249, 151.157507, 3], [‘Manly … Read more

How to get camera position with mouse move event and transform into screen coordinates in three.js? [closed]

I guess, you want the point you are looking at your sphere (probably with earth texture) to be shown on google maps google which requires latitude and longitude. Using 2D screen coordinates seems a weird method to me. Your camera is probably around the sphere which is at the center of the coordinate system. I … Read more