The custom tiles are images that you can create yourself, for example with a Perl script and the GD library. That's how I created these tiles,(in this case counties): http://maps.forum.nu/gm_main.html?lat=40.547200&lon=-100.371094&z=6&mType=5
What you need is the polygon data, and in the case of zipcodes, that's what you can buy from USNaviguide. ELabel have nothing to do with the tiles. If you can overlay it on Google's tiles, then you can also overlay it on your own tiles, but creating one ELabel for each zipcode in the US might be too much, but you can also writelabels on the custom tiles themselves. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Oct 15, 12:53 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya...I am a freelance web developer working for a client who wanted > a web application that shows a map showing selected zip codes with > labels showing statistical info for each zip code. I accomplished this > using GPolygons, zip boundary data pulled from US Census and Elabel. > All was working fine until the client sent me a large data file > containing many zip codes. That's when I ran into -- you guessed it, > folks -- the good ol' "script running too long" issue. > > After some research, it looks like custom tile overlays seem like the > best solution. (If there are other solutions, just let me know.) But, > my understanding is, tile overlays have to be prepared ahead of time, > which means I'd need to find a source of tile overlays showing zip > code boundaries So far, it looks like USNavGuide.com might have these, > though I don't quite understand exactly what the site offers. Are > there any other sources as well? And will they work with Elabel (or > any other 3rd party software for putting custom labels on the map)? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
