[android-developers] Re: How do you display many points on a map?

2009-06-30 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
The standard way of handling the too many points problem is to use a clustering system, either server based or client based. Clustering converts the many markers that can appear in one area, usually determined by a matrix, into a single marker. Another method is to limit what is loaded into the

[android-developers] Re: How do you display many points on a map?

2009-06-30 Thread guinyard
Right. And thanks. Incorporating these suggestions has definitely moved things along. Only draw what can be seen on the screen (pay attention to the map bounds) and only up to a usable number of points. Seems obvious, but when you're learning the low level stuff, it's easy to lose sight of

[android-developers] Re: How do you display many points on a map?

2009-06-29 Thread Delta Foxtrot
2009/6/29 guinyard guinyardli...@yahoo.com I understand the notion of overlays and all, but what if I want to display thousands of points on a map? The map becomes unresponsive after a few hundred OverlayItems are added. What's the best approach for doing this? If they are passive