Mike, I have two questions, how were you able to check the load times of the images? The second, how do I add a star to the GIcon.sprite link, I had only seen how many people had added a star, no where to add my own.
thanks On Dec 23, 11:53 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think that clustering makes sense on this sort of map. > > One little thing that you can do to improve things is to make sire that > all the resources that it uses actually exist. Error 404s can be > inefficient. > http://redhawks.semo.edu/www/images/admin/clear.gif > http://redhawks.semo.edu/favicon.ico > > It's a pity that GIcon.sprite is still undocumented, otherwise you could > speed up the loading of those custom icons the way that Google do with > things like > http://maps.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/cb/pegman.png > Loading one larger image is a lot faster than loading lots of very small > images. > > There's a period during your page loading when 30 very small marker > images are loaded one after another, taking a typical total elapsed time > of 3.2 seconds. If they could be combined into a single image, that > image would load in something like 0.3 seconds. > > In your case, because this is a University project that probably doesn't > need to be future proof, I'd suggest using GIcon.sprite anyway. If you > think you might want to use the facility in the future, add your star to > issue 760. > http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=760 > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
