Eyewitness News has created a Google Map showing the extent of the wildfires that raged roughly the Cape Town S peninsula final week.
The burn has affected roughly 5,000 hectares of land. To aid visualize the truthful extent of the burn Eyewitness News' map, Cape Fire - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Comparison, allows yous to overlay a polygon of the affected surface area overlaid on other locations roughly the world. The map provides a position out of quick links to run across the 5,000 hectares overlaid on the map of a position out of major cities inwards South Africa together with elsewhere roughly the world. You tin every 2nd good run an address search to run across the polygon overlaid on whatever other location.
Eyewitness News look to convey created their ain algorithm to adapt the size of the polygon relative to the latitude of the mapped location. The Google Maps API genuinely includes its ain geodesic business office which yous tin employ to polygons to enable them to last resized relative to their seat on the map. You tin sentiment an instance of this on this Google Maps API Draggable Polygons code example.
