Hi Mark,
Just a suggestion to store both your map data for the map tiles and the markers
in PostGIS. Now you have all in one place. Then have GeoServer render the tiles
and create a servlet that connects to PostGIS and serves up some JSON of the
markers that fall within the bbox from Google Maps. You may also want to look
into some of the Cluster managers that have been developed for Google maps in
case you are indeed serving "tons of markers" as you mentioned. Be aware some
browsers will choke at too many markers (i.e. divs) sooner than others... In
that case, you may even want to serve your markers as tiles.
Regards,
Edward
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:04:23 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Geoserver-users] Google Map Markers - GeoServer or Servlet
Hi there,
I'm going to be serving map tiles from GeoServer to Google Maps. Great.
I also have a ton of markers that I need to place on the maps too. I'm thinking
that I'll send them down via AJAX/REST as JSON. Just wondering if I should
store the data / have it served by GeoServer (where I'm sure it can filter data
according to location), or if I should just create a simple MySQL database and
write some code to send the JSON down to Google Maps.
What I like about using GeoServer (however that is done / if it can be done) is
that I have all my data in one place.What I like about using MySQL / Servlet is
that I'm a developer and it will make it really quick, simple and easy to
develop.
I'd love to hear some of your thoughts.Mark van Wyk
Email: [email protected]: 082 831 9227
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