Excellent! That's the exact insight I was looking for. I will try them on my server instead of the local build.
cheers On Jan 29, 6:10 pm, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lynxmap- > > You shouldn't need to have the tiles in your Flash project - they can > be on any web server. So I'm not sure why their size should factor > into the build. > > - pamela > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:08 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's more in the rebuild process. Basically it makes the compiler > > unworkable, each time it rebuilds it seems to want to delete, then > > recopy all the files into the debug folder. Performance of the > > running program is great! > > > I guess the solution is to write the program without the overlay (or > > at least just the lower zoom levels), then add the higher zoom levels > > when I am ready to make my final build. > > > cheers > > > On Jan 29, 2:47 pm, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Lynxmap- > > >> Only the tiles for the current viewport should be loaded into the map > >> at one time - Flash shouldn't ever encounter 300,000 tiles. Why is it > >> doing so? > > >> - pamela > > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:41 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > > >> > This is more of a Flex issue than a Google API. > > >> > Trying to get a countywide overlay tile set to perform with Flex has > >> > been quite challenging. For Zoom 18, I originally had over 300,000 > >> > tiles. The tile set is a transparent PNG overlay of parcel > >> > boundaries, so over 70% of these were blank. I was able to delete all > >> > the blank ones by examining their file size (a 256x256 png file with > >> > nothing in it takes 172 bytes, apparently). Next I used PNG OUT to > >> > optimize the tiles, saving another 30% in size. So far, so good, all > >> > seems well. > > >> > The real issue, though it just the quantity of files--Flex has a hard > >> > time building and rebuilding them. Any ideas on how to isolate a > >> > large quantity of files from the normal build process in Flex? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
