Mapping The Cape Fire

Eyewitness News has created a Google Map showing the extent of the wildfires that raged only about the Cape Town due south peninsula end week.

The burn downwards has affected only about 5,000 hectares of land. To assist visualize the truthful extent of the burn downwards Eyewitness News' map, Cape Fire - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Comparison, allows you lot to overlay a polygon of the affected expanse overlaid on other locations only about the world. The map provides a unwrap of quick links to meet the 5,000 hectares overlaid on the map of a unwrap of major cities inwards South Africa too elsewhere only about the world. You tin too role an address search to meet the polygon overlaid on whatever other location.

Eyewitness News look to bring created their ain algorithm to conform the size of the polygon relative to the latitude of the mapped location. The Google Maps API truly includes its ain geodesic component subdivision which you lot tin utilize to polygons to enable them to hold upward resized relative to their seat on the map. You tin persuasion an instance of this on this Google Maps API Draggable Polygons code example.