Hi Laxmidi-

Ok. I guess I would have expected faster performance with the MarkerManager.

I've just uploaded the ProgressBarControl from Tony, try it out:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash/web/GoogleMapFlash_progressbar_v01.zip

- pamela


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:19 PM, laxmidi1994<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Pamela,
>
> Thank you for your message.
>
> 1) I'm placing a lot of markers-- from a hundred (which runs okay) to
> several thousand (which crawls or crashes). I know that's a lot of
> markers. Obviously, I could reduce the number of markers placed on the
> map, but that wouldn't be a good solution in my case.
>
> 2) I am using the markerManager, so that only the markers in the
> viewport are rendered.
>
> 3) I'm very interested in the ProgressBarControl that you mentioned.
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Laxmidi
>
>
> On Sep 1, 1:48 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Laxmidi-
>>
>> How many markers are you displaying? Tony Leonard, from this group,
>> says that he ported the ProgressBarControl from JS to AS3, and that
>> would be pretty much what you described wanting. I've pinged him to
>> see if he can share that code with the group.
>>
>> If you're displaying many markers, you might also want to use
>> MarkerManager. It will load all markers into memory, and then only
>> render the markers in the viewport - so the rendering should be
>> faster.
>>
>> - pamela
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:07 AM, laxmidi1994<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a lot of markers and I'm trying to improve performance.
>>
>> > I use mySQL and php to return latitude and longitude coordinates. I
>> > then iterate over the result to make the markers. I use the
>> > markerManager class.
>>
>> >                                                        for  (i=0; i <
>> > myData.length; i++) {
>> >                                                        myMarkers = new 
>> > Marker(new LatLng(myData[i].latitude,
>> >                                                        myData
>> > [i].longitude), new MarkerOptions({
>> >                                                        icon: new myIcon, 
>> > iconOffset: new Point
>> > (2,2), iconAlignment:1,  hasShadow:true
>> >                                                        }));
>> >                                                        
>> > markerBoss.addMarker(myMarkers, 15, 15);
>> >                                                        }
>>
>> > Is there a way to create LatLng's or markers directly in php? Would
>> > this be faster?
>>
>> > If there isn't a way to speed up creating the markers is there a way
>> > to show each marker as it is rendered? Presently, all of the markers
>> > are calculated and then shown at one time. If the markers were shown
>> > as they were built it would be more interesting for the user than
>> > looking at a spinning clock.
>>
>> > Looking forward to your suggestions. Thank you!
>>
>> > -Laxmidi
> >
>

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