Drawing Region Polygons on Google Maps API v.3

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

You can “draw” all sorts of stuff on Google Maps using Layers but mor simply you can also directly create polygons and with a bit of extra work make them looks pretty cool. In this case I’m tracing a country using data from the Natural Earth Google Fusion Tables Dataset. Here is the final product showing where New York is.

Drawing a Polygon

The Natural Earth Dataset provides outline coordinates using the EPSG 4326 projection. We can build our polygon(s) with those points like:

Google Maps on David Hamp-Gonsalves

Drawing Region Polygons on Google Maps API v.3

Drawing a Polygon