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Use This Radius Map to Draw Circles for Radius
This tool will help you accomplish the following without a compass and pencil.
Simple circle function
- Radius given as kilometers seems to be often asked
- Pixel or degree radius are easier to make
- Two tricks to simplify circle function:
- Api's .distanceFrom() method is used for finding km/degree ratios for lat and lng.
- 360 step for-loop simplifies calculation
You can use this type of tool to accomplish this:
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a little bit confusing but interesting none the less..