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Google Maps supports various types of overlays, ranging from markers with associated info windows, through polylines, all the way to circles, rectangles, squares and other kinds of polygons.
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You would typically:
Unless customized, all these artifacts are vectorized β meaning that when you move or zoom the map, the overlays move and scale up/down without pixelation and in sync with the map canvas.
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The following concepts require elementary knowledge of geographic coordinates, as presented in the previous chapter.
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Iβd like to display my chain of restaurants on a Google Map and display 0.5mi circles around each location: