On Dec 23, 10:58 pm, daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
Click on the white star to the left of the title (Issue 760: GIcon
().sprite property documentation), it will turn yellow.
-- Lary
>
> 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
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