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Android Mapview: getLatitudeSpan and getLongitudeSpan don’t work

Hi there,
during last days I had to handle some problems using  methods getLatitudeSpan and getLongitudeSpan of a MapView in my MapActivity.

My MapActivity is a child activity of a tabbed main Activity, and I needed to obtain width and height (in terms of latitude and longitude) of the current map showed.

MapView gives us two methods to retrive these informations:

• getLatitudeSpan(); gives us back the latitude span in decimal degrees * 1,000,000

• getLongitudeSpan(); gives us back the longitude span in in decimal degrees * 1,000,000

(Remember that, perhaps for performance reason, we'll use MapView with the integer rappresentation of the double value, obtained multiplying by one million the latitude and longitude)

But.... there is a problem.

If you run a code like the following:

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