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How do I get Google Maps to show a whole polygon?

I have a set of GPolygon objects which are attached to objects in my domain model and are added to a map on my page. The domain objects are being shown in a list on the same page and when the user clicks on one of them I want to show the associated polygon.

I want the whole polygon to be showing and ideally I want the map to be centred on the polygon centre.

I was hoping that there would be a maps API call along the lines of... 

myMap.makeSureYouCanSeeAllThisPolygon(aPolygon);

but I haven't been able to find one.

If I have to do this manually, then I can obviously figure out the centering easily, but how do I figure out the zoom?

Solution

  • You can get the centre point of a polygon by using aPolygon.getBounds().getCenter(); and then using the GLatLng returned with the myMap.setCenter() method.

    To get the zoom level, you can use myMap.getBoundsZoomLevel(aPolygon.getBounds()); then use this with myMap.setZoom() method.