Computing latitude longitude center point of a Polygon in PHP

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Published on 2010-06-10T01:03:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 1:12 UTC
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I have a set of points (stored as lat/lon) for a polygon, I want to compute the lat/lon center point of the polygon in PHP.

Basically to do the same thing as the getCenter() function in Google Maps LatLngBounds.

Any ideas on how I can achieve this?

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