Hm the only fix I can think of is to redraw the line as you change zoomlevels and scroll the maps. But how do you make this smooth...
On 29 aug, 10:52, qFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, I believe this is already a known issue, but I can't quickly > find the post about it. > > Example:http://qfox.nl/files/gmaps1.php > > What happens is a large line is drawn, from top to bottom, with an > arbitrary angle. This displays fine. However, once you start zooming, > at some point (about zoomlevel 5) things go bad. When you scroll > around following the line at such zoomlevels, you'll see the line > 'jump' every now and then. > > The reason for this, I think, is that the polyline isn't kept in > memory if it doesn't fit in the 'cache'. So when such a thing occurs, > the original line is replaced by a new one to make things go quicker. > No problem there. However, the new line has a bad angle and position > now. > > It might not be a problem to the avarage user, but using an algo to > determine the point on such a line nearest to the mouse gives very > skewed results (http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/ > pointline/). > > Now I understand that this will not be fixed for Opera and such, which > use the image server to get polyline images, but this problem occurs > in firefox2 (and I'm guessing all the others as well). > > It's really frustrating because this will confuse customers and can > lead to 'bugreports' that aren't due to our coding efforts... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
