Google Earth KML with polygones with longitudes greater than 180deg?

Question

Hi,

I use polygones in kml files for displaying a rocket's flightpath from ground into orbit in google earth kml files.

the problem is, that google earth can't handle longitued greater than 180deg, so when a rocket will circle more than ones around the globe the longitued values has to be recalculated. Is there a way in using longitudes like 720deg and google can translate this by itself? I would prefer this, because I don'thave to change my programme and you can directly see the revolutions of the rocket around earth by its coordinates.

thank you in advance, Andreas

Answer 1

The KML definition indeed only allows arguments

• between -180 and 180 for longitude
• between -90 and 90 for latitude

see KML Reference - element "coordinates"

So I am afraid you will need to normalize your lon by introducing an angle function.

Answer 2

As mentioned by MikeD you will need to normalize to fit in the specs. Here is a site from Chris Veness with spherical formulas for doing lots of calculations that otherwise boggle the mind.