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krikara
krikara

Reputation: 2445

Color in Country

I have a written up HTML file using the Google Maps API v3.

All I want to do is color a couple of countries, for example, color in China and Canada to red. What is a simple solution (that doesn't involve Polygons and thousands of coordinates) to color in countries?

After browsing previous StackOverFlow questions, there seemed to be three common solutions. However these 3 solutions do not seem appropriate for my situation.

  1. Charts API -I don't really understand if Charts API is a good solution for me because I have already have a file using Google Maps API. Unless Charts can be applied over my map, or synchronize with the map, this does not seem to be a valid solution.

  2. Styling (With Styling Wizard) -This wizard (as far as I know) deals with the style of general characteristics, like road, water, population, etc. Unless someone can show me how to assign a specific country a color, I do not see how this can work.

  3. Polygons -I saw the example of the Bermuta triangle and other people have suggested to get the coordinates of the perimeter of a country and create a polygon. This may work except I may need a thousands of coordinates in order to fully outline China. Perhaps there is a more simple method in which I can color in a country?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 840

Answers (2)

Rman
Rman

Reputation: 479

This might work for you if coordinates generated automatically in different resolutions depending on your requirements. all you need to do is to load an appropriate GeoJSON onto your map. See here for the complete answer which is done just by adding a couple of line of codes.

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Upvotes: 0

geocodezip
geocodezip

Reputation: 161404

Use either FusionTablesLayer or KmlLayer. Both take kml formated geographical data and render it on tiles, yielding better performance with complex or large numbers of polygons.

The Natural Earth data set is available in Fusion Tables, and contains most countries.

Upvotes: 2

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