Symbols on Geodesic Polylines

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Last week I posted about Darren Wiens' experiments with Paper.js and the Google Maps
API, as featured on Darren's Side Projects blog. Since then Darren has created another interesting Google Map. In a post called <a href="

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The actual map, <a href="

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Darren explains in his post that he isn't really worried about North Korean missiles but created the map to illustrate how SVG symbols can be animated on polylines. If you are interested in creating something similar yourself then you should have a look at the <a href="

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