Hey chris- Generally, your options when dealing with displaying many markers are: 1) Clustering 2) Marker management (different markers at different zoom levels) 3) Lighter-weight overlay (e.g. MarkerLight) 4) Turn them into a clickable tile layer ..or some combination of those.
The following example combines MarkerManager with MarkerLight (2 with 3): http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/photolayer/photolayer.html - pamela On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I misunderstood what marker light was intended to do. I > thought it would be a little bit quicker since it uses less images > than GMarker since you don't have to show the shadow, and it is just a > simple <div> with an image in it. > > I appreciate all of the help Ralph. > > I think this example: http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_markermanager2.htm > is going to be what I need to end up trying to incorporate. I just > need to look at it closely and see how I can make it work for me and > fit it in with what I already have. > > On Oct 16, 10:50 pm, Ralph Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > That presents a problem. How do I go about making the listener in the >> > markerlight2 script listen for the click and on click open up the info >> > windown and then close the info window? >> >> >>You seem to be trying to use Marker Light to get all the functionality >> >>of GMarker, but I think it was intended to be a no-frills alternative. >> >> >>If I'm reading it right, .... >> >> Maybe but, even then the sidebar click needs to work as well? >> >> So where do you stop? >> >> I think Pamela intend this to be a visual demo, maybe? >> >> Ralph > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
